Directly over the target.

President Donald Trump listens as Elon Musk speaks in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (Photo/Alex Brandon)

Given the amount of fire he’s taking, we can be certain that Elon Musk is directly over the target. In addition to having ignited a wave of howling by enraged Democrats over his upending of the waste and corruption at the United States Agency for International Development ($2 million for sex change surgeries and “LGBTQ activism” in Guatemala anyone?), Musk has uncovered breathtaking sloppiness and massive fiscal irresponsibility at the Treasury Department.

That’s not all. He’s all over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, calling for it to be shut down because it is operating without congressionally approved funding, and it is promulgating banking regulations that have the perverse effect of making credit and financial services harder to obtain for low-income consumers.

Everywhere he shows up, he finds staggering levels of waste, inefficiency and fraud on the part of the federal government that we pay for and that is supposed to be working for us.

You’d think that rooting out waste and fraud would be enjoy bipartisan support. But no. Democrats are beside themselves. Here’s Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, (a Native American descendant, just ask her), shrieking about Elon Musk at a small public rally Monday.

This is like a bank robber trying to fire the cops and turn off the alarms just before he strolls into the lobby.”

Yeah, Liz, that’s it. It’s not that billions of dollars taken from the paychecks of those hard-working low income and middle-class taxpayers you say you’re all about are being wasted in the most grotesque ways possible. It’s that Elon Musk – the richest man in the world – is trying to steal from them. In fact, it’s the Leviathan state that Democrats so strongly favor that is stealing, and in ways that no one has dared to imagine until now.

You sometimes have to ask, can these people hear themselves?

In the case of Musk’s criticisms of the Treasury Department, rather than saying, “Wow it looks like the Treasury is long overdue for an audit,” attorneys general from 19 blue states filed suit in Federal Court for the Southern District of New York – a friendly venue for Democrats. The judge, Obama appointee Paul Engelmayer, issued an order blocking access by Musk and the DOGE team to the Treasury payments system.

The order essentially says that only permanent federal bureaucrats can have access. Mere “political appointees” cannot. Never mind that the Secretary of the Treasury is a political appointee. The ruling is ridiculous on its face. The Treasury secretary can look at anything at the Department of the Treasury that he wants. And so can anyone else appointed by the president – say, for example, Elon Musk.

God bless Elon Musk and God bless Trump for appointing him to this role. All of us who pay taxes take have long known that we are, to some degree or another, being ripped off. But Democrats are panicking because we’re all about to find out that it is many, many, many orders of magnitude worse than we thought.

Let the sunlight in.