A CBS 60 Minutes segment last February tried to put a face to President Donald Trump’s (R) new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). In a feat of investigative journalism, they managed to catch three DOGE employees—Elon Musk’s “nerd army”—going to work. The three men were dressed as casually as Silicon Valley wonder kids typically are as they quietly went into the building. In an attempt to add substance to the staid scene, 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl said DOGE’s employees reportedly order take-out from Chipotle. Desperate for something more, the CBS show interviewed a just-laid-off government employee who said she heard some DOGE employees were college dropouts (as was Mark Zuckerberg). This should have ended that scene.
Except it didn’t. CBS badly wanted to create the impression that bringing accountability to government is a bad thing, so they next reported hearsay that the DOGE employees are working in the basement of the building with newspapers taped over the windows.
On the flailing went … but, try as they did, they could not bring themselves to report the actual details of what this new administration is discovering and stopping, as that would straighten out the deceitful narrative.
But we can tell the truth.
Attorney General Pam Bondi—60 Minutes said she didn’t respond to their interview requests—had just fired the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) top attorney, Pamela Hicks—this would be a person central to the ATF’s many attempts to usurp Congress’ constitutional authority by writing new gun-control laws.
Bondi has been vocal. She soon publicly commented that the state of the Department of Justice (DOJ) was “worse” than she expected. “Worse meaning, that [the DOJ] had completely lost its mission of fighting violent crime,” said Bondi. The ATF, of course, is an agency within the DOJ.
President Trump next wrote on Truth Social that he “instructed the termination of ALL remaining ‘Biden Era’ U.S. Attorneys. We must ‘clean house’ IMMEDIATELY, and restore confidence. America’s Golden Age must have a fair Justice System - THAT BEGINS TODAY!”
Before even all this had taken place, DOGE released data indicating that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) had likely funneled a lot of money to groups that advocate for more restrictions on our Second Amendment rights. USAID also paid media outlets that tout gun control.
Then the big news hit: after the U.S. Senate confirmed Kash Patel as the director of the FBI. Patel then quickly hired radio-show host, former Secret Service officer and staunch advocate for our right to keep and bear arms Dan Bongino to be deputy director of the FBI.
Bondi had already been tasked by President Trump, via an executive order titled “Protecting Second Amendment Rights,” to “examine all orders, regulations, guidance, plans, international agreements, and other actions of executive departments and agencies to assess any ongoing infringements of the Second Amendment rights of our citizens, and present a proposed plan of action to the President, through the Domestic Policy Advisor, to protect the Second Amendment rights of all Americans.”
So, accountability is smashing through these government entities. The 60 Minutes propagandists might not have concocted a narrative twisted enough to cause the American people to misunderstand what is actually going on in this segment, but they’ll keep trying. Meanwhile, we’ll keep you informed about what this new administration is doing.
