A prominent economist has been exposed as a “paid puppet” after it was revealed he’s been bankrolled by leftist groups to push efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Effeciency (DOGE).
Oren Cass, who served as a senior advisor to former Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), was believed to be trying to influence the Trump administration’s economic policies in the lead-up to the inauguration.
However, Cass is now facing criticism for his opposition to Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts in line with the resistance from some of his top donors.
Cass, the founder and chief economist at American Compass, told Politico in February:
“Elon Musk is not actually a popular person, and the frame of politics that the DOGE crew is pushing is not an effective brand of politics.”
Also in February, Cass wrote a piece for UnHerd titled, “Why DOGE will fail: There isn’t an easy button for everything.”
In the article, he argued that “DOGE is haphazardly cutting expenditures without even knowing what they are.”
Cass has a long history of criticizing Musk.
Last year, he took shots at Musk’s personal character.
He said in a post on X that Musk’s values are not aligned with the interests of the American people.
In March 2024, Cass posted that Musk has “already committed to upholding core socialist values” to placate the Chinese Communist Party for financial gain.
Cass has been positioning himself as an ally of the Trump administration.
However, a significant chunk of American Compass’s funding comes from a handful of foundations tied to liberal causes.
Those donations include almost $2 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Omidyar Network, which is led by a founder described as “notable for funding liberal-in-conservative clothing groups that target former president Donald Trump and his supporters.”
The Hewlett Foundation gave nearly $2 million, 44.1% of total funding, to American Compass from 2020-2023, including a startup grant.
Meanwhile, Pierre Omidyar of the Omidyar Network gave $550,000, 11.3% of total funding, from 2020-2023.
Both the Hewlett Foundation and Omidyar Network have worked against the Trump administration.
Hewlett Foundation Director of Economic and Society Initiative Jennifer Harris has been critical of Musk and DOGE’s efforts on X.
Harris cast doubt that DOGE cuts would result in actual savings and shared a post that said:
“The Air Crashes Of The Past Two Days Show Us the Obvious: The Man in Charge of @DOGE Runs Companies That No One Would Miss If They Disappeared Tomorrow.
“If Good Government Disappears, People Die.”
The anti-Trump “news” outlet The Atlantic posted a piece in February with the headline, “DOGE Is Failing on Its Own Terms.”
The bottom of the propaganda article stated:
“Support for this project was provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.”
The Omidyar Network has been active behind the scenes pushing resistance against Musk and the Trump administration, the Washington Examiner reported in November.
The group has opposed Musk in various forms and previously backed corporate boycotts against Musk, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Along with his criticism of DOGE, Cass has been a vocal opponent of another one of the Trump administration’s top priorities, tax cuts.
Despite offering some praise of Trump, Cass has been a longtime critic of the president’s 2017 tax cuts.
He called the cuts an “expensive failure” and said Trump’s support is facing an “inevitable expiration.”
In September 2020, he added that Trump is “building no intellectual foundation, no institutional infrastructure and no policy agenda.”
In a statement, Mike Palicz, director of Americans for Tax Reform, said:
“Oren Cass is a former Romney staffer upset that Trump is cutting taxes and cutting government spending.
“DOGE shouldn’t care about the political assessment of a man who just lost a local school board election.”
Cass previously worked as a senior economic advisor on the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney in 2008 and 2012.
David McIntosh, Club for Growth president, said in a statement:
“So American Compass opposes the Trump tax cuts, and now Elon Musk’s work to cut federal government waste, it’s almost like he’s just a paid-puppet of the Left – oh wait, he is.”
After Trump’s 2024 election victory, Cass continued to signal opposition to Trump’s tax policy.
Source: https://slaynews.com/news/former-mitt-romney-advisor-exposed-paid-puppet-behind-anti-doge-efforts/
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