The Woketopus’ War on DOGE

The far-left groups that staffed and advised the Biden administration—a network that I call the Woketopus—are going to war against DOGE’s efforts to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government.

Activist groups like the Center for American Progress and the ACLU are working alongside unions like the AFL-CIO and the American Federation of Teachers to block DOGE through lawsuits or public campaigns.

My book, “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” exposes how these activist groups—bankrolled through the Left’s dark money network by big donors like Hungarian American billionaire George Soros and his son, Alex—used the administrative state to force their woke agendas on the American people.

The Trump administration is rooting woke ideology out of the federal government, so the Woketopus’ opposition comes as no surprise. Yet the campaign against DOGE seems particularly noteworthy, since DOGE represents an effort to tighten the government’s belt and make it more accountable to the people.

The Dark Money Playbook

A little-known and once secretive nonprofit called Governing for Impact appears to have orchestrated the Left’s campaigns against DOGE.

As I document in the book, Governing for Impact began as a project of New Venture Fund, one of the nonprofit entities created by the for-profit company Arabella Advisors. Governing for Impact’s website did not even appear on Google in 2022, but the nonprofit bragged about hosting a “listening tour” that involved some of the most influential regulators in the Biden administration.

The Open Society Foundations, which George Soros founded and which his son Alex now runs, funneled $9.98 million into Governing for Impact through New Venture Fund between 2019 and 2021.

Rachel Klarman, Governing for Impact’s executive director, previously worked as a legal policy analyst at Democracy Forward, identifying and developing litigation challenging the first Trump administration’s actions on health care, labor, and education.

Perhaps it should be no surprise, then, that Governing for Impact published a series of memos laying out legal strategies to sue the second Trump administration, particularly on DOGE.

The memo titled “Challenging DOGE,” published in February, lays out a strategy to claim that DOGE “lacks lawful authority to act as an agency.”

“One potential legal claim would assert that DOGE, as embodied in [the U.S. Digital Service, the department Trump re-tasked to house DOGE], lacks any statutory authority,” since Congress did not pass a law explicitly creating DOGE.

The memo admits that Trump has an alternate explanation for DOGE’s involvement, but it insists that the effort is unlawful. It goes on to state that since DOGE “lacks lawful authority to act as an agency,” it “cannot enter Economy Act agreements.” The Economy Act, signed in 1932, allows federal agencies to share resources.

The AFL-CIO, America’s largest union, filed a lawsuit against DOGE that same month, arguing that DOGE lacks the authority to place orders with other federal agencies under the Economy Act, The Washington Examiner reported.

Not only did the AFL-CIO—one of the unions with influence in the Biden administration—bring this lawsuit, but its legal representation comes from none other than the Democracy Forward Foundation, Klarman’s former employer. Democratic lawyer Marc Elias, who recently challenged the U.S. Senate election results in Pennsylvania and who helped orchestrate the Trump-Russia hoax, chairs Democracy Forward’s board. Democracy Forward is representing many of the lawsuits against the Trump administration.

 Other Woketopus Lawsuits Against DOGE

The American Federation of Government Employees—the largest public-sector union in the federal government and a member of the AFL-CIO—has filed multiple lawsuits against DOGE.

In the first anti-DOGE lawsuit filed on Trump’s first day in office, AFGE joined Public Citizen and State Democracy Defenders Fund (a group led by Democratic lawyer Norm Eisen) in suing to make sure DOGE complies with the requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act.

AFGE teamed up with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees to sue Acting DOGE Administrator Charles Ezell to block the Trump administration’s offer for federal employees to resign in a buyout.

AFGE also sued to prevent DOGE from accessing sensitive data held by federal agencies.

The American Federation of Teachers joined with other unions to sue Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, to prevent DOGE from accessing federal data.

The DOGE Grant Map

Earlier this month, the Center for American Progress—which fed more than 60 staff into the Biden administration—launched a map to “track cuts to grants and federal real estate leases made by the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency.”

“This new tracker will make it easier for elected officials and the media to tell the story of DOGE’s immeasurable harms caused by cuts to grants and federal leases,” Will Ragland, the center’s vice president of research for advocacy and outreach, said in a statement on the map. “While it is impossible to understand the full scope of these cuts, this tracker will serve as an iterative resource to crowdsource information from stakeholder as the impact of these cuts are more fully realized nationwide.”

The map separates the U.S. into congressional districts and lists each canceled grant by its location in a state and a congressional district. It includes grants from the U.S. Agency for International Development—the agency that directed billions of taxpayer dollars to woke causes often also supported by George Soros—because those grants employed U.S companies in order to help foreign causes.

By noting which House member represents the area where each grant went, the Center for American Progress suggests—though it does not state—that readers should contact those representatives and oppose DOGE.

The Anti-Tesla Protests

Any discussion of the Left’s actions against DOGE would be incomplete without a mention of the violent domestic terror attacks against Teslas and the protests that erupted across the country against Elon Musk, who has advised Trump on the DOGE effort.

While the Woketopus does not appear connected to these efforts, the Left’s dark money network that bankrolled the Woketopus has also funded the groups that helped organize the protests. Those groups claim they oppose violence, but the protests included signs reading, “Burn a Tesla, Save Democracy.”

The Left doesn’t just oppose DOGE because it’s a conservative effort launched by a Republican president. This sort of vitriol also suggests the Woketopus has secrets to hide—and doesn’t want the waste, fraud, and abuse to stop.

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