What DOGE does right — and what the critics get wrong

What DOGE does right — and what the critics get wrong

To understand the urgent need for the Department of Government Efficiency, we need only turn back the clock four years. In 2021, the Biden administration issued 3,257 regulations with the force and effect of law. During that same year, Congress, the body in charge of actually writing laws, passed only 81. As a result, the Competitive Enterprise Institute estimated that regulations cost nearly $2 trillion, or 9% of U.S. gross domestic product, in…