Another piece to the puzzle was added after news broke that the machine run by leftist billionaire George Soros was suing President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
MRC Business discovered that another radical group financed by Soros, Public Citizen, requested January 13 for its co-presidents to be appointed to DOGE, which is being led by X owner Elon Musk. Public Citizen virtue signaled over “concerns about DOGE’s structure and mission. In structure, an advisory committee led by individuals such as Musk and former DOGE leader Vivek Ramaswamy over dubious allegations of conflict of interest.
In short, Public Citizen (founded by leftist Ralph Nader in 1971) sought to steer DOGE away from solely focusing on its founding principle to slash bureaucracy and instead be reengineered to include consideration on “more efficiently regulating corporations” to supposedly protect consumers. They're for cutting spending -- if it's defense spending and oil subsidies. Soros fueled $6,096,003 collectively into Public Citizen and its Foundation between 2016 and 2023 alone.
As the late President Ronald Reagan warned, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” The Trump transition team apparently didn’t comply, according to January 16 reporting from The New York Times. Public Citizen’s request “has not been accepted so far, the co-president of Public Citizen, Lisa Gilbert, said Thursday,” The Times wrote.
Just days later, on Inauguration Day, another leftist pro-censorship group financed by Soros called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), would launch a lawsuit along with the radical American Federation of Teachers against DOGE just moments after Trump took office. The reason, according to The Times, was alleged violation of “laws that require federal advisory committees to be open to the public and to include a diversity of viewpoints.” Hmm, that's kind of like what the radical Soros-funded, pro-regulation Public Citizen would bring to the table, right? It makes sense, given that Public Citizen would file its own lawsuit against DOGE with other leftist cohorts on Inauguration Day along similar lines too.
Coincidence? We think not.
Public Citizen, in its request, was effectively asking to stifle the very reason why DOGE was established in the first place by being the “voices” for those who “benefit” from federal regulations and spending programs. As Influence Watch noted in its profile of Public Citizen, “The organization supports a broad liberal policy agenda focused on opposing the free-market interests of American business owners.”
Oh but it gets worse, according to Influence Watch:
[Public Citizen's] anti-free-market lobbying agenda supports increased government spending and opposed multiple tax cuts.6 The group also touts its support for enacted policies that increased civil liabilities, and imposed costly environmental mandates and regulatory red-tape6 on businesses.
The group even openly endorsed passage of the multitrillion-dollar environmental monstrosity cooked up by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA): The Green New Deal.
The irony is that Public Citizen claimed in its letter to the Trump transition team that unlike Musk and Ramaswamy, “our appointment to DOGE would not raise conflict of interest concerns because” it allegedly doesn’t have “financial interest in federal government contracts and spending.” That’s despite being financed heavily by the Soros empire, which absolutely would be concerned with such interests. Perhaps that's the real reason why CREW and Public Citizen would later sue.
It's a small world after all, eh Soros?
