A CBS/YouGov poll found that nearly half of respondents want Musk to have little or no influence, with opinions split along party lines.

"Nearly half"

"opinions split along party lines"

So the Republicans are still bootlicking fascism. Nothing has changed. There's no mass outcry from people who just now realized it.

It's the same 'nearly half' of the country that's sane.

Unless someone is going to enforce consequences on them they don't care if 100% of the population disagree with them.

Trump can't legally get elected again and Musk wasn't elected at all, why the fuck would they care what the public thinks?

A CBS/YouGov poll found that nearly half of respondents want Musk to have little or no influence, with opinions split along party lines.

So literally what any of us would have predicted as the outcome to this poll, and it doesn't matter anyhow, because Trump is fully in "whatever, I'll do what I want" mode.

Musk’s DOGE crusade is the perfect allegory for late-stage oligarchy: a billionaire playing cabinet minister while polls scream 46% want him gone. The partisan split here is theater – Republicans cheering their own disenfranchisement through regulatory capture, Democrats clutching pearls they helped string.

That White House press flacks can’t confirm his security clearance while he raids Treasury datasets? Peak technofeudalism. They’re not even pretending anymore – just raw power consolidation masked as "efficiency."

Meanwhile, the Education Department "doesn’t exist" but somehow gets staffed by meme lords with racist post histories. This isn’t governance; it’s a hostile takeover using government letterhead.

Then why did they vote for or refuse to vote against him?

Yes but were those polls taken on Twitter?! That's the only valid poll to Elon.

I’ll file this in the not helpful “hopium” or copium folder of discourse that is actually harmful to enacting change. It leads you to believe the tides are shifting in your favor and all will be ok when that’s actually not the case.

I live in a solidly conservative area and I heard a surprising but also encouraging conversation this morning at the doctor's office.

When I walked in, there were a handful of folks in the waiting area and they were talking supportively of JD Vance, so presumably conservative voters. It was off putting for me and I was immediately a bit irritated that I can't even go to the doctor without having to listen to this bullshit.

But as the conversation continued, they actually started talking about how super wealthy people worth hundreds of millions aren't paying their fair share of taxes, how they're ruining towns and making middle class people pay for it, and things like that. Specifically they were talking about some of the environmental damage done to waterways by rich people (they mentioned someone specific but it wasn't a name I am familiar with and I don't recall what it was) and how the clean-up is being paid for by middle class tax payers.

So, while we might all disagree substantially on a lot of topics, I think a disdain for super wealthy / elites not paying their fair share is some common ground to build on.

You're in for 4 awesome years of Musk in the gov, champs. But hey, you voted for it, so I don't understand why are you now showing disagreement with what they told you they would do.

Yeah great, but the fucking damage is done and who knows what that neo-Nazi lunatic will do with the information. I hope the NSA, CIA and FBI nab his worthless ass.

I also want him of Earth for what it's worth. Let him pack up a Space X rocket and head to Mars. Start that colony he said we'd absolutely would have by now, because it's so easy (according to him). He's be the first person in Mars!

Another pointless article.

• Polls are crap. Who answers those calls? The same damn people over and over.
• The results are " strong feelings" or " nearly 50%" !?!?

I usually ignore motherj articles anyway.... Guess I can keep doing that

It is what it is at this point, and as usual, Democrats will completely mis-read the room and rant about shit that won't win them the midterms. The best we can hope for is TheIdiot falling flat on his face.

Watch how quickly it takes them to do nothing at all about this.

Yet more evidence shows Elon Musk and his cronies at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are unpopular with many Americans.

Nearly half of people who responded to a new CBS/YouGov poll out today said they want Musk to have less influence over government spending and operations, including nearly a third who think they should have none at all. The poll found that 18 percent of respondents said that Musk and his DOGE acolytes should have “not much” influence on government operations and spending, while 31 percent said they should have none at all. Predictably, the support differed along partisan lines: Nearly three-quarters of Republicans surveyed said Musk and DOGE should have “a lot” or “some” influence, whereas more than two-thirds of Democrats said they should have “not much” or “none.”

They're really reaching with that headline. It's in the territory between clickbait and positively misleading.

I love these polls that report on obvious conclusions that don't require polling.

Like yeah, no shit. The problem is the people holding the reins of power couldn't give two shits what the American public wants or thinks.

This is the point when asking is useless. There needs to be telling. The purest form of authority isn't going to wield itself.

when we vote to deport grandma, lose your farm and keep prices high

Probably shouldn’t have NOT VOTED.

Too bad we don't have a government responsive to what people want.

Like they give a shit about polls now that they’re untouchable.