DOGE is under attack from Fox News for a reason no one could have predicted

Elon Musk and the DOGE team are boogeymen in the pro-Democrat Party media.

But now Musk and DOGE are facing a new set of critics.

And DOGE is under attack from Fox News for a reason no one could have predicted.

Donald Trump formed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to slash spending as America’s $36 trillion national debt represents an existential crisis to the nation’s future.

DOGE faces a drumbeat of attacks from Democrats and the media about gutting the government with a chainsaw approach.

But now DOGE is under attack from Fox News guests and hosts for not chopping the government down to size adequately enough.

Fox Business co-host Jackie DeAngelis said DOGE had the right idea on spending cuts but that Congressional Republicans need to raise taxes if they are serious about paying down the national debt.

“They [congressional Republicans] need to raise revenue, and they need to cut spending,” DeAngelis declared. “You can’t go and leave, you know, spending at levels that are, you know, costing this country and then say to the people who are already paying 46 percent of the federal income tax that you need to pay more for services that you don’t get a benefit from because we want to recklessly spend. That just doesn’t work. It doesn’t sit well. It’s not part of how people traditionally view capitalism, I think, and they’ve got to do it. They’ve got to get the spending cuts done.”

Fox News commentator Dagen McDowell couldn’t believe what she was hearing and ridiculed the idea of raising taxes as just an excuse from the swamp to avoid the hard choices of spending cuts.

“It’s also the creep’s way out — and I use the word creep because they want to let the top rate creep up — the creepy way out of not cutting spending,” McDowell stated.

McDowell argued that on its current spending trajectory, the government would run a bigger deficit in 2025 than it did in Joe Biden’s last year in office.

“And it’s just– the fact that we’re running more than a $2 trillion deficit this year, it will come in higher than Joe Biden’s last year in office. What is that likely, because the first six months of this fiscal year we ran a 1.3 trillion dollar deficit. So if you run that out just based on the first 6 months, we could have a 2.6 trillion dollar deficit this year. It’s absurd. Don’t tell me you can’t cut, don’t tell me you can’t cut!” McDowell added.

Guest Daniel Newman mocked Elon Musk for saying DOGE had identified $150 billion in spending cuts as inadequate.

“Well, DOGE came up about $850 billion short based on that last Cabinet meeting,” Newman stated.

McDowell doubled down taking DOGE to task not cutting spending enough, which puts America’s fiscal future at risk.

“The $150 billion that DOGE has found in cuts, using Elon Musk math doesn’t– it is $9 billion short of our budget deficit last month, Lydia,” McDowell quipped. “That’s how out of control our finances are and borrowing.”

Guest Lydia Hu agreed, saying it was admirable that Musk was willing to take time away from his businesses to work with DOGE on spending cuts.

But Hu said Musk’s stated goal was $2 trillion in spending cuts and DOGE was currently nowhere near that goal.