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As Musk exits DOGE, a look back at previous efforts to cut waste, fraud and abuse – and how they fared
As Elon Musk steps away from his official role at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), he joins a history of presidential administrations that have attempted to streamline government—with mixed results.
While former Presidents Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Grover Cleveland all tried to downsize the judiciary, treasury and civil service, respectively, it wasn’t until the 20th century that the federal government grew into the bureaucratic behemoth it is that has drawn true DOGE-type attention.
Though often seen as the bigger spenders, some Democrats joined Republicans in the 1990s to shrink the size of government and make it more accountable to taxpayers.
«We know big government does not have all the answers,» former President Bill Clinton said during his 1996 State of the Union.
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Presidents Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, left to right. (Getty)
«We know there’s not a program for every problem. We have worked to give the American people a smaller, less bureaucratic government in Washington — and we have to give the American people one that lives within its means.»
«The era of big government is over,» he said, in a phrase that had largely been considered the closest emulation of DOGE thought until Musk arrived on the scene.
Clinton also sought welfare reform and emphasized personal responsibility over dependency on the state.
The Arkansan also called for slashing the bureaucracy by 200,000 jobs and worked with then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., to balance the federal budget.
President Donald Trump’s efforts to do the same have received a very different response from the left.
Clinton, working with congressional Republicans – while also frequently sparring with them — was able to reduce the federal workforce somewhat and establish a budget surplus but also failed to realize entitlement reform, something that more recent fiscal hawks have also struggled with.
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JFK, left, Robert McNamara, right. McNamara went on to also lead the Pentagon under President Johnson. (Bettmann/Getty)
Clinton won his 1992 upset as a centrist, after incumbent Republican George H.W. Bush was lambasted for reneging on his «Read my lips – no new taxes» pledge, with a statistical boost from industrialist independent H. Ross Perot, who won the votes of many erstwhile Bush supporters.
Clinton and then-Vice President Al Gore established a National Performance Review (NPR) that drew some parallels to today’s DOGE, and cut the bureaucracy to 1960s levels.
He went on to win reelection over otherwise popular GOP stalwart Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., in 1996.
In 1980, actor-turned-California Gov. Ronald Reagan took the White House with promises similar to another celebrity-turned-politician who would do the same 36 years later.
The Gipper did not succeed in abolishing the Department of Education – created only a few years prior by former President Jimmy Carter – something Trump has also sought.
But, he reinvigorated a new generation of conservatives who still praise him for slashing income taxes, seeking to «starve the beast» via forced discretionary-spending cuts, and took on public-sector unions when he essentially won a dare against Air Traffic Controllers who went on strike by firing them all and prohibiting their rehiring.
Reagan’s closest iteration of DOGE was the 1982 Grace Commission, studying cost-cutting and efficiency – and led by Maryland chemical executive J. Peter Grace along with dozens of «commissioners» plucked from the private sector.
In the executive order creating the Grace Commission, it was tasked with examining «the entire federal government for areas of inefficiency, mismanagement and waste, and to recommend savings without raising taxes or cutting essential services.»
Within its three-year lifespan, the commission reported $424 billion in savings, including waste, fraud, abuse, overpayments to government vendors and billions in unpaid taxes.
Reagan, however, faced the same resistance from the proverbial «Swamp» in trying to implement the commission’s findings.
«We’re not trying to hurt anyone. But the American taxpayer is being ripped off,» Grace said at the time.
While ushered in as a conservative pragmatist, Reagan’s later years saw budget deficits grow, and the national debt more than double. The Dow also lost nearly one-quarter of its value on «Black Monday,» Oct. 19, 1987.
The other contemporary president known for trying to «DOGE» government was Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson. LBJ was known for rapidly expanding government through his «Great Society» social programs but also took aim at streamlining the Pentagon and Defense apparatus.
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Efforts at the Pentagon largely failed, as the ongoing Vietnam War also accentuated costly balance sheets.
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, a Kennedy holdover and former Ford Motor Company chief, was employed to make changes at the Pentagon.
He instituted what was called the Planning Programming Budgeting System, which sought to bring a more streamlined approach to managing the Pentagon’s budget.
However, the vast size of the defense bureaucracy—along with resistance from some military leaders—undermined the effectiveness of Johnson’s and McNamara’s reform efforts.
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Virginia voters sue to boot Democrat off ballot in district that could decide state House majority
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A new court filing claims a Democratic candidate for a hotly contested, GOP-held Virginia House of Delegates seat doesn’t live in the district she seeks to represent, a dispute that could shape control of the chamber in 2026.
Three voters in Stafford County went to court to allege candidate Stacey Carroll does not live in District 64 and instead in the neighboring, Democratic-majority 23rd and want her booted from the ballot.
Plaintiffs Stephen Schwartz, Judith Anne Parker and Juliet Schweiter alleged Carroll continues to live near US-1 in Aquia, Virginia, at the southern edge of the 23rd district but filed to run for office from an address about 7 miles southwestward near Stafford Court House, Virginia, in the 64th.
Local residents are asking the court to throw out Carroll’s voter registration at the Stafford address, which they argue would disqualify her from the ballot.
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That address is reportedly registered to another family, and a 1966 Virginia court ruling puts the burden of proof-of-residency on the voter registrant or ballot applicant, according to The Virginia Mercury.
While a seemingly local matter, the result of the case could have wide-ranging implications for the final tally on Election Day as all 100 House of Delegates seats are up for grabs. And Democrats achieved the rare accomplishment of running candidates in all of them, including reliably Republican seats in far-flung rural regions like St. Charles, Big Stone Gap and Tazewell.
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If her candidacy stands, Carroll will face Republican Del. Paul Milde of Stafford in a district that narrowly went for President Donald Trump in 2024 by just under two points.
If she is found to truly live in Aquia, her home district seat would be that of Democratic Del. Candi King of Prince William, a much safer and more suburban seat that went for former Vice President Kamala Harris by about 66-31.
A tie loses in the House of Delegates, meaning Republicans need only three seats to win back the majority but cannot afford to lose tight races like Milde’s.
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Democrats won back the House of Delegates in the last election in 2023, scoring a 52-48 majority. Republicans currently have one vacancy after House Minority Leader Todd Gilbert, R-Luray, resigned to briefly become U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia.
Carroll’s chances of flipping Milde’s seat give Republicans an additional roadblock in their quest to take back the chamber.
They are also fielding other tightly contested races, including in Hampton Roads.
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Del. A.C. Cordoza, R-Poquoson, is the only Black Republican in the chamber and represents a district Harris narrowly won.
Republicans are laser focused on the seat, and Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and lieutenant gubernatorial candidate John Reid have all stumped for Cordoza.
Like exurban Stafford, Hampton Roads is perennially competitive. Democrats tend to have the edge in state races, while Republicans, such as incumbent Rep. Jennifer Kiggans, often prevail in federal contests.
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Earle-Sears shocked the area in 2001 by winning a routinely Democratic-held seat in Virginia Beach, launching her into the commonwealth’s political conscience.
Several other seats in the region, which also includes Norfolk, Portsmouth, Hampton, Chesapeake and Isle of Wight, are seen as potential pickups for the opposing party.
Reid’s race is also expected to weigh heavily on Republicans’ chances of controlling Richmond beyond the governor’s seat.
While Democrats control the upper chamber, Earle-Sears is statutorily the tie-breaking vote.
Divided similarly to the House, the Senate’s partisan future may hang in the balance depending on whether Reid can defeat state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi, D-Chesterfield.
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Reid would break ties in favor of Republicans, meaning they only need to win back two more Senate seats. Hashmi would do the opposite, meaning the GOP would need three.
Fox News Digital reached out to Carroll’s campaign for comment.
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El aeropuerto de Múnich suspendió sus operaciones tras el sobrevuelo de drones no autorizados: 3.000 pasajeros afectados
El aeropuerto de Múnich, uno de los principales centros de conexiones aéreas de Alemania, suspendió sus operaciones la noche de este jueves tras una serie de avistamientos de drones en las inmediaciones, causando la cancelación de 17 vuelos y el desvío de otros 15 a distintas ciudades alemanas y a la vecina Austria ante la imposibilidad de garantizar la seguridad de las operaciones.
Según precisó la propia terminal aérea en un comunicado difundido a primera hora de este viernes, cerca de 3.000 pasajeros resultaron afectados por la interrupción.
Las rutas afectadas trasladaron su destino a los aeropuertos de Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Frankfurt y Viena mientras la terminal principal de Baviera, considerada uno de los mayores centros de tránsito aéreo de Alemania, permanecía sin operar. La medida generó amplias consultas y demoras para los pasajeros, aunque personal del aeropuerto indicó que “todo está bajo control y el aeropuerto reabrirá a las cinco”.
Durante el primer semestre de 2025, el aeropuerto de Múnich gestionó el viaje de casi 20 millones de pasajeros, en parte por su papel como base de la aerolínea nacional Lufthansa y su relevancia para el sur del país. El incidente reciente tuvo un impacto inmediato en la conectividad internacional y el tráfico nacional de Alemania, justo cuando otros países europeos están en alerta ante situaciones similares.
En días previos, terminales aéreas en Dinamarca y Noruega interrumpieron actividades tras recibir reportes sobre drones no autorizados en zonas seguras, complicando la agenda de miles de usuarios. Ante estos hechos, el gobierno danés resolvió prohibir temporalmente cualquier vuelo civil de drones por sobre su espacio aéreo e incrementar la vigilancia.
Las autoridades europeas han expresado preocupación por la reiteración de estos casos. Recientemente, altos mandos y gobiernos han detectado incursiones de drones rusos en los cielos de Polonia y Rumania, así como episodios de violaciones aéreas sobre Estonia por parte de aviones de combate. Esta serie de incidentes se produce en el contexto de la guerra en Ucrania y el refuerzo de controles en la frontera europea.
La primera ministra de Dinamarca, Mette Frederiksen, indicó en días recientes que no se podía confirmar el origen de los drones, aunque advirtió que “principalmente hay un país que supone una amenaza para la seguridad europea y ese país es Rusia”. En respuesta a los reclamos internacionales, el gobierno ruso negó su implicación en estos hechos y rechazó cualquier relación con las supuestas operaciones en espacio aéreo de otros Estados.
El caso de Múnich se suma a las precauciones extremas derivadas de una oleada de incidentes recientes en la ciudad. A inicios de semana, el reconocido festival Oktoberfest fue clausurado durante varias horas debido a una amenaza de bomba, mientras que la policía local investigó el hallazgo de explosivos en una zona residencial al norte de la capital bávara.
Estos acontecimientos intensificaron el despliegue de patrullas y de protocolos de monitoreo aéreo en el aeropuerto y otros puntos sensibles de la región. Las autoridades alemanas supervisan la evolución de la situación en coordinación con instancias de la Unión Europea, que días atrás aprobó nuevas estrategias comunes de defensa para enfrentar la amenaza de drones en aeropuertos y fronteras continentales.
Se espera que la terminal aérea de Múnich reabra al público a las 5:00, hora local, aunque las autoridades mantendrán las restricciones de seguridad.
Pidieron a los pasajeros informar en todo momento a las autoridades sobre cualquier actividad sospechosa. Delegados aeroportuarios reiteraron en la reapertura: “Algunos vuelos están esperando autorización, otros han sido cancelados; todo está bajo control”.
(Con información de Reuters)
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