There is no pretending. This current administration is not "Republican," it's MAGA, which is an extremest minority that split off the GOP.
Musk is destroying the government and many of the agencies that protect the average person with worker protections, workplace safety, consumer protections, food quality protections. Musk isn't doing this because he wants to save America. He's doing it to line his pockets and force his way into more government contracts while simultaneously getting rid of agencies and staff that have held his feet to the fire with investigations and fines. The fed work force only makes up 3% of the budget, yet they are his main focus. Why? I thought he was there for waste and fraud, so save the economy... Why is he focusing on the smallest budgetary item? Could it be for all the reason I mentioned? Naw, it has to be altruism.
Trump is gutting Medicade and soon enough he'll gutting Social Security, Medicare, and Disability.
He's causing price hikes with these idiotic tariff threats.
Taxes for the middle and working class are going UP, while taxes for corporations and billionaires are going down.
And, they just passed a spending bill that will increase the national debt by 20 trillion over the next 10 years (hey wait a sec, I thought DOGE was there to fix the budget???)