As President Trump and Elon Musk push forward with DOGE to tackle government waste, fraud, and abuse, critics are pouncing from several angles, ranging from reasonable to downright unhinged. With mandatory entitlement spending—Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—ballooning the national debt, cynics throw up their hands, assuming that DOGE has no power to address the core problems in the federal budget. Others are freaking out over “President Elon” bulldozing through the executive agencies, branding him as some sort of totalitarian dictator. Their antics are over-the-top and often betray ulterior motives, but the ‘constitutional crisis’ language is worth a second thought. The administrative state is constitutionally dubious, but untangling its mess of intertwined legislative and executive power is no simple task—practically or legally. Is DOGE trying to fight fire with fire?