EXCLUSIVE: Americans Support DOGE Mission, Want Congress To Pass Border Bill

A new poll shows large support among Americans for cutting reckless government spending and for Congress to pass a border bill before the April recess.

The poll, sponsored by Tea Party Patriots Action and conducted by McLaughlin and Associates, was conducted on January 28 and consists of responses from 1,000 general election voters. The poll has a margin of error of 3.1%.

In results that suggest broad support for Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts, about four out of five voters agreed that the U.S. government should “rein in Washington’s reckless borrowing and spending” to tamp down inflation, according to poll results obtained by The Daily Wire. Over 60% of respondents said that Congress should take action to secure the border before it breaks for a 17-day recess in April.

“The American people want to shrink the size and scope of the federal government, and they want to rein in Washington’s reckless borrowing and spending. That’s exactly what Elon Musk and his colleagues at DOGE are doing,” Tea Party Patriots founder Jenny Beth Martin told The Daily Wire in a statement.

“The poll we commissioned shows they’re doing exactly what the public wants — 79% of Americans want to ‘rein in Washington’s reckless borrowing and spending.’ This includes 69% of Independents and 65% of Democrats,” she said.

Another strong majority of voters, 71%, support Congress taking up legislation to extend or make permanent the 2017 tax cuts of President Donald Trump’s first administration. Many of the provisions of the Tax Cuts And Jobs Act, one of the signature pieces of legislation from Trump’s first term, are scheduled to expire by the end of this year, effectively raising the tax burden on the average American.

In a result that suggests confidence in the outcome of the past election, just over half of respondents, 50.3%, said that they believe they will be better off in four years than they are now. Under 40% said the opposite.

“DOGE’s agenda is wildly popular across the political spectrum, and so is the rest of President Trump’s agenda,” Martin told The Daily Wire. “This is why he was elected in the first place. Our poll shows that congressional Republicans and the Trump Administration should move full steam ahead and ignore the whining and filibustering of Beltway elites.”

One of Musk’s latest moves, to audit the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has garnered stiff opposition from Democrats who allege that Trump and Musk are endangering humanitarian programs funded by U.S. taxpayers.

Musk’s investigation into USAID has revealed a slew of spending programs that the White House says run counter to Trump’s agenda, such as funding and exporting DEI and trans ideology projects to countries such as Serbia and Peru.