Groundwork Collaborative’s Lindsay Owens and Public Citizen’s Lisa Gilbert joined EOF on Tuesday, February 4 for an insightful webinar exposing the real agenda behind Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and how philanthropy can respond to its threats.
For decades, lawmakers have consistently given tax breaks to the rich and tried to cut government programs to the bone. DOGE is the latest iteration of this two step. While DOGE poses a serious threat to the public investments our families and communities need, if we are strategic, we can make DOGE wildly unpopular and ineffective, and possibly even stop it all together. In this session, we reviewed the latest polling on Musk and DOGE, discussed effective messaging strategies to ensure the public understands the threat DOGE poses to vital programs that working families depend on, and outlined legal and advocacy strategies to combat DOGE and increase public support for essential programs.