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A Genuine Revolution: How Trump and Elon Musk Are Solving Truman’s Accountability Challenge

One reason Americans are so fed up with politics is the failure to really change things despite lots of campaign promises.

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President Trump, left, applauds Elon Musk at a campaign event on October 5, 2024, at Butler, Pennsylvania. AP/Alex Brandon, file
NEWT GINGRICH
NEWT GINGRICH

Sean Hannity’s remarkable interview of President Trump and Elon Musk is putting the entire DOGE project in a new, different light.

In 1952, President Truman warned his successor that presidents try to get things done, but they have remarkably little effective reach beyond the Oval Office. 

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NEWT GINGRICH
NEWT GINGRICH

Mr. Gingrich, the Speaker of the House between 1995 and 1999, is the author of 42 books and chairman of Gingrich 360. For more commentary from Mr. Gingrich, visit Gingrich360.com

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