Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are struggling with a key question as they stare down a fast-approaching deadline to fund the government: How do they fund federal agencies that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to dismantle?

The strategy could help satisfy hard-liners but alienate Democrats whose votes will be needed to fund the government.

In the weeks since President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has burrowed rapidly into federal agencies, reshaping the government with few discernible limits and seizing sensitive taxpayer data.

Carville told NewsNation that the Tesla billionaire will be “the greatest generator of Democratic turnout, ever, more than Barack Obama.”

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Former Democratic advisor Dan Turrentine admitted the party's effort to criticize Elon Musk's DOGE is 'terrible' as he uncovers and roots out wasteful federal spending.

After a blistering loss in November, Democrats hope the Department of Government Efficiency and Elon Musk can be the target that puts them back on the map.

Indivisible and MoveOn are partisan networks tied to George Soros, a powerful leftist figure who has donated billions to controversial initiatives.

A variety of left wing organizations, some funded by prominent left-wing billionaires, have been directly involved in the anti-DOGE protests that have erupted nationwide.