President-elect Donald Trump’s sweeping November victory has the whole world buzzing.
And many in the Washington, D.C. political establishment are becoming increasingly nervous.
That’s because Ron Paul is now advising Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and has this government organization in his sights.
DOGE ready to take aim at government waste
One of Donald Trump’s most exciting and controversial actions so far is the announcement of the creation of the “Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).”
DOGE will be a temporary commission co-chaired by American entrepreneurs Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk.
DOGE’s singular goal is clear and simple: massively reduce the federal government’s bureaucratic bloat to revitalize the U.S. economy and save the American people trillions of dollars.
As expected, the Washington, D.C. Swamp and its legacy media cronies are losing their minds at the thought of actual accountability.
DOGE has attracted the attention of many influential people, including former Texas representative and presidential candidate, Dr. Ron Paul.
Late last month, Paul announced that Musk had asked him to advise DOGE. Understandably, the internet roared in delight.
“Elon Musk asked me to advise the new Dept. of Government Efficiency. I’d love to help bring sanity back!” Paul wrote in an X post.
Elon Musk asked me to advise the new Dept. of Government Efficiency. I’d love to help bring sanity back!
However, I still think Americans need to shield their retirement funds ASAP from this much bigger threat (from our sponsors): https://t.co/TDOtDBU7EA
— Ron Paul (@RonPaul) November 22, 2024
And Paul has not been sitting idly by, he is already giving his input on cuts that need to be made.
And on a recent episode of ‘The Ron Paul Liberty Report,’ Paul and his co-host Daniel McAdams reviewed Kelley Beaucar Vlahos’ article in The American Conservative titled, “DOGE’s Best First Target: the National Endowment for Democracy.”
Dear D.O.G.E.,
Get rid of The National Endowment for Democracy (NED). It’s the Deep State’s “regime change” machine.
America will never be great again if we continue to foolishly attempt to police the world. pic.twitter.com/emtkjjTnOm
— Ron Paul (@RonPaul) December 3, 2024
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was established in 1983 as an “independent, nonprofit, nongovernmental grant making organization dedicated to strengthening democratic institutions and values around the world” by an act of Congress during the Reagan administration.
Ron Paul has a recommendation for NED
Paul’s recommendation is simple and clear: “Get rid of it.”
And Paul didn’t mince words, referring to the NED as “the Deep State’s ‘regime change’ machine.”
Paul also bluntly stated, “America will never be great again if we continue to foolishly attempt to police the world.”
Critics like Paul have long argued that the NED merely serves as a front for American Deep State interests by funding activities that attempt regime change.
Vlahos’ article pointed out the fact that then-Rep. Paul (R-TX) has been warning about the NED since at least 2003.
Back then, Paul condemned the “Orwellian” attempts to label U.S. manipulation of foreign elections as “promoting democracy.”
He also openly wondered, “How would Americans feel if the Chinese arrived with millions of dollars to support certain candidates deemed friendly to China?”
However, these days there’s no need to wonder, as Washington, D.C. has condemned Communist China’s efforts as “malicious,” “meddling,” and trying to “destabilize America from within.”
For example, the NED was involved in funding a failed coup in Venezuela.
The NED funded over $850,000 to unsuccessfully help oust the leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and moved millions of dollars to Ukraine over the years.
On top of that, they funded groups involved in Ukraine’s Orange Revolution and Maidan Revolution.
The NED has also been involved in efforts targeting Russia, Cuba, Brazil, South Africa, Taiwan, the UK, and more.
In total, the NED has cost American taxpayers “over $1 billion in congressional appropriations from 2020, 2021, 2022 to 2023”, according to Vlahos’ research.
NED Director of Public Affairs Jane Riley Jacobsen has denied the accusations, blasting them as “ludicrous,” “totally unfounded,” “reckless,” and “irresponsible.”
However, Allen Weinstein, the former President of the NED, told The Washington Post in 1991 that, “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA. The biggest difference is that when such activities are done overtly, the flap potential is close to zero. Openness is its own protection.”
With increasing scrutiny on the CIA and the rest of the intelligence community, it’s only natural that a quasi-government agency like the NED is being eyed with suspicion and ire.
While it remains to be seen whether DOGE will indeed go after the NED, it sure seems like there’s a new and exciting chapter starting on how America conducts herself on the world stage.
