About Us

Welcome to Libertarians Against DOGE, a cause led by the Coalition Against Government Entanglement (CAGE), a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C.

Why Should You Oppose DOGE?

AI firms are the new surveillance arm of the deep state

Limited government has always been about protecting liberty, not just making government smaller. But DOGE isn’t interested in that distinction. Instead of outright eliminating government influence, DOGE threatens red-blooded Americans with something more opaque —- more automated, more outsourced, and ultimately more difficult to hold accountable. We are swapping clunky puppets for smarter chains.

DOGE is applying Musk’s cost-cutting strategies to the federal government, prioritizing workforce reductions, contract/lease/grant terminations, and other cost-cutting measures in the name of efficiency. In the private sector, the same Silicon Valley playbook has gutted entire departments, severed institutional knowledge, and left remaining workers in constant uncertainty. The devastation is now creeping into government under the guise of modernization. This is not entirely naivety: there is a deliberate shift in how power is exercised. The legacy deep state is dead, and a more-efficient deep state has emerged.

The federal government is not an ideal employer, and many libertarians don't even want it to be one. But there is a dangerous technocracy that, now in power and requiring less workers, threatens to strangle the existing free-market. Everything is fed to a handful of AI firms. These firms, with unprecedented centralization of data, operate in a regulatory gray area. As they are increasingly critical infrastructure, they will face mounting pressure to cooperate with intelligence agencies and law enforcement. The writing is on the wall: these companies are becoming an extension of the state’s surveillance apparatus.

AI models, on their own, are a tremendous gift and a decentralizing force. I absolutely enjoy using Claude Sonnet 3.7, Gemini, 4o-mini, and Deepseek R3. But, today, there is a casualty in employment and deployment: the middle-class software-developer is now obsolete, and tomorrow it will be the middle-class American. Taxpayers aren’t getting a leaner, more responsive system that facilitates all sorts of economic mobility -- they’re getting an over-engineered Silicon Valley monoculture that has significantly less opportunity for most Americans. Not everyone needs to learn to code. Not everyone needs to learn how to vibe-code.

Remember: American Government was birthed in Philadelphia, not in San Francisco, Austin, or Boca Chica.

DOGE provides political cover for Congress to be even more fiscally irresponsible.

Congressional Republicans could be politically free-riding on DOGE, using it as a way to extend and enhance the 2017 tax cuts without making significant budget cuts -- claiming that DOGE will handle federal spending. Media and political hyperventilation about "large scale" and "massive" cuts as well as DOGE's own exaggerations of the scale of its austerity could certainly help Congress shirk its fiscal responsibility yet again.

DOGE is about self-interest and cronyism

While DOGE has acted more broadly than in departments or agencies that Musk's businesses are involved with, there have been examples of conflicts of interest. FDA employees reviewing Neuralink, Musk's controversial brain-chip company, were reportedly fired (with some later rehired). The FAA, which has clashed with SpaceX over launch delays and environmental reviews, has been another target and Musk has criticized a competitor of his own company, Starlink, that provides services to the FAA. The recent image of President Trump doing marketing for Tesla on the front lawn of the White House, the controversy about the State Department's apparent plans to purchase Tesla cybertrucks, and the Trump administration's intentions to establish a strategic crypto reserve provide further evidence of cronyism.

The Democrats use weak, ad-hominem attacks—going after figures like Musk for being a billionaire while ignoring Biden's constitutional violations. Their selective outrage is just a smokescreen, if not outright controlled opposition. The time-limited nature of DOGE and lack of transparency around its leadership and structure is seen as further evidence that something underhand is at play.

Say NO to DOGE

Neither the executive, legislative, nor judicial branch of government can limit the federal government's size. It's time for Americans to reject the false promises of centralized planning and put their trust where it has always belonged: in the power of free individuals, voluntary cooperation, and the relentless drive of the market to outpace bureaucratic mediocrity.

One day, DOGE and its enablers will be nothing more than a failed experiment from the 2020s. Until then, we stand firm, fighting for a future where libertarian values shape local governance. Individuals deserve the opportunity to truly live freely and enjoy the lives they work so hard to build.

Who does NOT fund us?

• The Elon Musk Foundation
• The American Kennel Club
• Sam Bankman-Fried
• The Department of Governmental Efficiency
• The Bilderberg Group
• The IRS
• The Nobel Prize Committee
• The Dave & Buster's Rewards Program
• Spirit Halloween
• A Random NFT Discord That Instantly Banned Us
• Whoever Keeps Making Those $500K Ape JPGs
• Mr. Beast
• ChatGPT

"much hype. so little. wow."

-- tesla shareholders