This “unelected” stuff is just stupid. If no one who is “unelected” can view or do anything else with information that the government holds, then we don’t need ANY staff-level federal employees, because they’re ALL unelected. The other response to this idiocy is that DOGE answers to an elected official, which would be President Trump. So the companion claim the left is making that DOGE has no accountability is nonsense, because they answer to Trump, who was elected by the people and who can be impeached by the people’s representatives if they really feel DOGE is out of control.
I’ve also heard leftist dems claim that federal employees don’t work for Trump, they work “for the American people.” While true in a philosophical sense, someone still has to lead and manage them, and that person is the President. The people exercise their will for the bureaucracy through their choice of President.