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? Charted: DOGE-vulnerable districts

Data: Congressional Research Service; Chart: Jacque Schrag/Axios Republicans represent a slight majority of the 60 congressional districts with the highest share of federal workers, including many lawmakers publicly cheering on Elon Musk's hack-and-slash efforts. Why it matters: At first glance, it seems like DOGE's stabs at slashing the federal workforce mainly affect the solidly Democratic areas in the D.C. metro area. But dig a little deeper, and the story changes. Speaker Johnson (R-La.) is on the list. So is Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), who leads the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, and Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), the chair of the House Appropriations Committee. Several endangered GOP incumbents — including Reps. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) and Juan Ciscomani (R-Ariz.) — are on that list. By the numbers: According to a Congressional Research Service report published in December, nearly all of the 10 districts with the highest proportions of federal workers are in Washington, D.C., Virginia and Maryland. D.C. is essentially a company town where the factory is the vast federal government bureaucracy, as Axios' Cuneyt Dil recently noted. Many of its workers live in D.C.'s surrounding suburbs and exurbs. Once you get past the top 10 districts, red states like Oklahoma, Alabama and Texas start to show up. Zoom in: Beyond D.C., the Defense Department — which isn't being spared DOGE's wrath — accounts for high concentrations in some districts. Kiggans and Cole represent districts with large military installations that have long been major employers for their constituents. Rep. Nick Begich (R-Alaska), who is in a competitive district, has a large military constituency. But agencies like the Interior Department, FAA and Postal Service also have significant presences, according to the Anchorage Daily News. Between the lines: Even as they have applauded DOGE's cuts in public, some Republicans have privately worried about Musk's ruthless tactics. "It would be more helpful if some of those DOGE folks showed more sensitivity to the people who are being terminated this way ... who didn't do anything wrong," one House Republican told us last month. Another said Musk is "more liked by people in the White House than anyone here [in Congress] because we have to deal with the ramifications of what he says."

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Musk and DOGE try to slash government by cutting out those who answer to voters

DENVER (AP) — For decades, conservatives in Congress have talked about the need to cut government deeply, but they have always pulled back from mandating specific reductions, fearful of voter backlash.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-federal-workforce-doge-cuts-republicans-03c307112ebf247a71a7ad54aea6fa6d?

Unions ask court to stop DOGE from accessing Social Security data of millions of Americans

WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of labor unions are asking a federal court for an emergency order to stop Elon Musk ‘s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the sensitive Social Security data of millions of Americans.

https://apnews.com/article/social-security-doge-lawsuit-data-protection-ab30a5f446914b93aff84188558c1416?

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Deju Vu for Pennsylvanians? Cuts to Government Employment Could Hurt Job Growth for Everyone

Over the past few weeks, national attention has focused on the unprecedented threats of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to federal government employment. This blog hones in on the potential impact of slashing federal employment in Pennsylvania. Based on a new Economic Policy Institute resource that went live two days go, the map and table below profiles federal government employment in our state by Congressional District.

https://keystoneresearch.org/research_publication/a-one-two-punch-in-the-gut-for-working-people-punch-two-cuts-in-federal-employment/?

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Deju Vu for Pennsylvanians? Cuts to Government Employment Could Hurt Job Growth for Everyone

Over the past few weeks, national attention has focused on the unprecedented threats of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to federal government employment. This blog hones in on the potential impact of slashing federal employment in Pennsylvania. Based on a new Economic Policy Institute resource that went live two days go, the map and table below profiles federal government employment in our state by Congressional District.

https://keystoneresearch.org/research_publication/a-one-two-punch-in-the-gut-for-working-people-punch-two-cuts-in-federal-employment/?

What is the big deal for those laid off ,the big man himself said "Learn code,if you can shovel coal you can learn code"

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? GOP's DOGE back-channel

Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios

As Elon Musk's slash-and-burn budget cuts hit Republican and Democratic areas alike, some GOP lawmakers are privately back-channeling with the Trump administration to try to shield their constituents from the fallout, Axios' Erin Doherty and Andrew Solender write. Why it matters: Republicans have largely cheered on DOGE in public. But behind the scenes, many of President Trump's allies fear potential political backlash to the cuts — and are scrambling to limit the damage. Of the 60 congressional districts with the most federal workers, a slight majority are represented by Republicans. ? What we're hearing: Several House Republicans told Axios they have succeeded in — or at least contributed to — getting DOGE to reverse certain cuts through private back-channeling. Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.) said he raised concerns about job cuts at the Bonneville Power Administration: "Whether it was my remarks back to DOGE or somebody else's, it got fixed. They ... hired back 30 people." Keep reading.

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DOGE Likely Can’t Evade Freedom of Information Law, Court Rules

A federal judge ruled Monday evening that Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency is likely subject to legal disclosure obligations under the Freedom of Information Act.

https://theintercept.com/2025/03/11/doge-foia-lawsuit-transparency/?

IRS swaps chief counsel for a lawyer friendly with DOGE, AP sources say

The Internal Revenue Service’s acting chief counsel, William Paul, has been removed from his role at the agency and replaced by Andrew De Mello, an attorney in the chief counsel’s office who is deemed supportive of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, according to two people familiar with the plans who were not authorized to speak publicly. Read More.

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Who’s Running the DOGE Wrecking Machine: The World’s Richest Man or a Little-Known Bureaucrat?

Insiders tell ProPublica that Amy Gleason is only in charge on paper, while Musk’s top lieutenants really run DOGE. One person who has been in meetings with Gleason described her as having “little to no actual decision making” responsibilities.

https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-leadership-elon-musk-amy-gleason-trump-ethics-conflict-of-interest?

 

DOGE allegedly froze spending on care, feeding of TSA bomb-sniffing dogs. Here's what we know

Claim:

The Department of Government Efficiency issued guidance restricting Transportation Security Administration employees from submitting requests related to food, kenneling and veterinary care for dogs on the agency's explosives detection canine teams.

Rating:  Mixture

What's True

A TSA spokesperson confirmed over email that the agency's "credit card purchases have been restricted for 30 days."

What's Undetermined

The TSA spokesperson said that "canine operations have not been adversely affected by this effort," but did not explain how the dogs' care was currently being funded. They also did not directly confirm or deny DOGE's involvement in the spending freeze.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/doge-tsa-dogs-spending/?

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Musk reposted post that said, 'Stalin, Mao and Hitler didn't murder millions of people'

Claim:

U.S. President Donald Trump's adviser, Elon Musk, reposted another user's post on X in March 2025, showing a screenshot reading, "Stalin, Mao and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector workers did."

Rating: True

In mid-March 2025, an X user posted (archived) that U.S. President Donald Trump's adviser, Elon Musk, "amplified" another user's post that displayed an image reading, "Stalin, Mao and Hitler didn't murder millions of people. Their public sector workers did." Readers also emailed Snopes to ask if Musk truly reposted the post.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-hitler-mao-stalin-post/?

ps:Can't believe people like this our running the govenment

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Judge rules DOGE’s USAID dismantling likely violates the Constitution

Judge orders Trump administration to restore email and computer access to all employees

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/03/18/doge-usaid-constitution/?

DOGE's USAID shutdown was likely unconstitutional, federal judge says

A federal judge on Tuesday said Elon Musk and DOGE likely violated the U.S Constitution with its "accelerated" shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/18/usaid-shutdown-unconstitutional-federal-judge-doge?

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DOGE Stimulus Check Update: Payments Sent Out Might Not Be $5,000

The mastermind behind the proposal to issue "DOGE dividend" checks to Americans has suggested payments may not be $5,000.

https://www.newsweek.com/doge-stimulus-checks-payments-james-fishback-2046512

ps:Of course! That was a given!! Now lets see if anyone in low income, middle income will actually get any of this money???

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Social Security

A new Social Security anti-fraud rule could force more people to visit agency offices at a time when the organization is downsizing. The new rule, which takes effect on March 31, would require people filing benefit applications who cannot prove their identities online to complete their claims in person. Mandating more in-person identity verification would increase the number of visitors to field offices by between 75,000 and 85,000 people per week, according to a memo from an official. The agency was already understaffed — it currently takes more than a month to get an appointment — and now DOGE aims to cut 7,000 employees and close several offices. So far, more than 2,500 Social Security employees have applied to take buyout offers. 

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Judge rules DOGE’s USAID dismantling likely violates the Constitution The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency likely violated the Constitution, a federal judge ruled Tuesday as he indefinitely blocked DOGE from making further cuts to the agency. Read more.

Why this matters: The order requires the Trump administration to restore email and computer access to all employees of USAID, including those put on administrative leave, though it stops short of reversing firings or fully resurrecting the agency.   The lawsuit filed by USAID employees and contractors argued that Musk and DOGE are wielding power the Constitution reserves only for those who win elections or are confirmed by the Senate.   In one of the first DOGE lawsuits against Musk himself, U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland rejected the Trump administration’s position that Musk is merely President Donald Trump’s adviser. Musk’s public statements and social media posts demonstrate that he has “firm control over DOGE,” the judge found, pointing to an online post where Musk said he had “fed USAID into the wood chipper.”

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DOGE official is taking a leadership role at USAID, an email obtained by AP says

A senior official at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is taking a leadership role at the U.S. Agency for International Development, giving DOGE direct authority over an agency that it has worked to dismantle, according to an email obtained by The Associated Press. Read More.   ps:Well isn't that righteous!!!!!

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? DOGE's risky target

Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios

In less than two weeks, Social Security is set to enact major changes that threaten to upend services for many Americans — in order to fight fraud that amounts to a fraction of 1% of the agency's spending, Axios' Emily Peck writes. Why it matters: Social Security Administration veterans and powerful lobbying groups warn the changes, implemented at breakneck speed, might foment more swindling. The agency's internal documents caution the changes will effectively cut some Americans off from receiving benefits. Former officials say the changes will overwhelm the agency's already stretched resources, with staffing at a record low and America's aging population rapidly rising. ? Zoom in: Acting commissioner Lee Dudek said Tuesday that $100 million is lost each year to direct deposit fraud. To address it, the agency is curtailing phone services. Effective March 31, Americans won't be able to call and sign up for Social Security benefits or make major changes to their accounts that require ID verification. They either must use the internet or visit a field office — not easy options for many on Social Security. ? By the numbers: $100 million in fraud represents about 0.00625% of the $1.6 trillion Social Security sends out each year.

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Musk Is Firing Federal Workers Who Prevent Bloated Tech Contracts

Earlier this month, all of the employees at 18F, a unit of government technologists under the General Services Administration, awoke to a surprise. 

https://theintercept.com/2025/03/19/18f-tech-federal-workers-musk-trump-doge/?

ps:These guys antics just get better and better!!!

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Social Security data

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Social Security Administration from giving members of Elon Musk's DOGE team access to agency data containing individuals’ personally identifiable information. The judge said the Trump administration had failed to show why the group needed “broad access to millions of Americans’ sensitive” data, and likened the DOGE team’s demands to a “fishing expedition.” She also ordered DOGE affiliates to delete any personally identifiable information they had already acquired from the agency and to remove any software they had installed on the SSA’s computer system.

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Why DOGE is struggling to find fraud in Social Security

Todd C. Frankel and Hannah Natanson, (c) 2025 , The Washington Post

Mon, March 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM EDT

7 min read

Elon Musk put a big target on the Social Security Administration in the first weeks of the Trump administration, claiming it is plagued by “immense waste” and promising audits to root out “the extreme levels of fraud.” President Donald Trump said during his joint address to Congress earlier this month that Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service was already “identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud” at the agency.

But some of the biggest examples of allegedly wasteful spending held up by Musk and DOGE so far have been overblown or inaccurate. Musk’s assertion that tens of millions of dead people over 100 years old are receiving Social Security benefits was so off-base that it had to be tamped down by the agency’s acting head, who had been promoted because of his willingness to cooperate with DOGE. “These individuals are not necessarily receiving benefits,” Social Security acting commissioner Lee Dudek said.

Musk’s intense focus on Social Security appears central to his promise to slash $2 trillion from the federal budget. The agency distributes $1.6 trillion in benefit payments each year, making up about 20 percent of all federal spending.

Its sprawling size would appear to offer plenty of opportunities to root out waste and fraud for those who think such problems run rampant in government.

But less than 1 percent of Social Security’s payments in recent years were determined to be improper - often the result of an accidental oversight or change in benefit status, according to a report last year by the agency’s inspector general. That works out to about $9 billion a year, and more than two-thirds of the mistaken payments were eventually clawed back. Another agency audit, which looked only at payments to retired workers, survivors and people with disabilities, found fraud was listed as the cause behind just 3 percent of improper benefit payments.

Despite the flood of money flowing through it, Social Security didn’t make a 2024 list by the Government Accountability Office, the legislative branch’s nonpartisan watchdog, detailing the 16 agencies with improper payment rates of at least 10 percent. That report further found that 80 percent of all improper payments were due to just five government programs, including Medicare and Medicaid - but not Social Security.

“The wild claims they are making - I’ve never seen anything like this,” Kathleen Romig, a former analyst and senior adviser at the agency, said of DOGE and Musk.

Social Security is among the most scrutinized and audited agencies in government, with frequent probes by its 500-person Office of Inspector General. It pays outside auditors to examine its books. Congress grills agency officials. Last year, a major focus in congressional hearings led by the GOP wasn’t waste or fraud - it was about Social Security being too aggressive in clawing back accidental benefit overpayments.

Criminal investigators with Social Security’s IG office typically investigate cases tied to disability fraud or covering up a relative’s death to continue receiving benefits. The IG also monitors seemingly minor issues, such as potential misuse of government credit cards. Last month, it reported that the risk for problems was low because of strict internal controls.

“It’s extremely closely watched,” said Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works, an advocacy group that seeks to expand coverage.

When asked about the reams of audits and reports that appear to contradict Trump and Musk’s assertions of rampant waste and fraud in Social Security, White House spokesman Harrison Fields said the cost-cutting operation was being unfairly maligned.

“The continued attempts to sow doubt in the massive accomplishments of this never-before-seen effort to make government more efficient speaks more about the illegitimacy of those peddling these falsehoods than the good work of DOGE,” Fields said. “The American public are in lockstep with the president’s mission and will not be swayed by more lies coming from the legacy media.”

Trump and Musk have latched onto the contention that extremely old Americans are supposedly getting Social Security benefits as a prime example of blatant fraud.

In his speech to Congress, early in March, Trump asked the Justice Department to investigate the spending at Social Security. “We’re going to find out where that money is going, and it’s not going to be pretty,” he said. He spent several minutes rattling off numbers from DOGE purporting to show that unbelievably old people are still collecting Social Security benefits, including one person listed at 360 years of age.

“More than 100 years older than our country,” Trump said, to laughter.

On social media, Musk alleged that more than 20 million Americans over age 100 receive Social Security checks, derisively describing it as “a lot of vampires collecting Social Security.”

But those claims are not backed up by agency data. Officials said they showed a misunderstanding of Social Security’s databases.

The agency has millions of people in its databases who lack recorded dates of death - the result of old computer systems and events that are decades in the past. That doesn’t mean they are getting checks. Social Security auditors in 2023 reported that 98 percent of those without recorded dates of death were not receiving agency benefits and were known to be deceased. Agency officials said it was costlier and riskier to update the records than to do nothing.

Musk’s claims of malfeasance, however, refused to die.

Last month, agency staff again looked into the issue. They found 1,294 Americans older than 100 who were receiving benefits from Social Security as of Feb. 19, according to internal agency records obtained by The Washington Post. Workers contacted 1,107 of these centenarians as of last month, the records show, finding that 905 were alive and 202 were dead.

That meant 202 dead people appeared to be improperly collecting benefits, not 20 million.

Mark Warshawsky, a former agency deputy and now senior fellow at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, was among the people quick to dismiss DOGE’s claims. But he also noted that updates to Social Security’s death accounting could help with anti-fraud efforts at other agencies that use its records.

The uproar stoked by DOGE over alleged dead beneficiaries cast new attention on problems previously highlighted in audits by the Social Security inspector general - which, as its website shows, is aimed at detecting waste, fraud and abuse.

“It was like, ‘DOGE, we’ve been saying this this whole time,’” said Rebecca Rose, a spokeswoman for the inspector’s general office. “We’ve already put out that report.”

The degree of scrutiny by Social Security’s IG can be intense. One report issued by the office earlier this month found that a partner agency in Mississippi had incorrectly made a $14 payment because of a data-entry error.

Social Security’s inspector general was fired in the first days of the Trump administration, along with top internal investigators at 16 other government agencies. Although the office has continued to operate, it is expected to lose up to 20 percent of its staff because of budget cuts, Rose said.

Already DOGE has canceled many contracts at Social Security, just as it has at many other federal agencies. A DOGE-run website late last week listed $50.3 million in cost savings from these canceled agreements.

That included funding for a University of Wisconsin at Madison study project to understand how to prevent impostor scams. Government impostor scams - most commonly pretending to be from the Social Security office - resulted in estimated losses of at least $577 million last year, often by conning seniors into sharing personal data, according to the agency’s IG office.

“When you cut resources like this, there’s always room to make things more efficient. But you also could make things worse,” said Cliff Robb, a University of Wisconsin professor who has studied impostor scams. “You could end up making fraud worse.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

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? DOGE hits home

Illustration: Lindsey Bailey/Axios

The Trump administration's drive to eradicate a small amount of fraud in Social Security is risking the agency's public mission, current and former Social Security Administration officials tell Axios' Emily Peck. Why it matters: It's also starting to ignite some political blowback for the Trump administration. ? The big picture: "Social Security has always talked about its twin missions of stewardship and service," says someone familiar with the agency's long-standing efforts to combat fraud. But now, we're in a moment where fighting fraud is in the driver's seat. With the agency's most recent cuts to phone services, experts say field offices could flood with people, who'll see delays getting service or may not be able to access benefits at all. Keep reading.

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Social Security chief backs down on threat to shut down agency after DOGE ruling

DOGE has been at the center of several lawsuits over its attempts to access the sensitive information of American citizens.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/social-security-chief-backs-threat-shut-agency-doge-ruling-rcna197632

Judge bars DOGE access to sensitive personal information at 3 federal agencies

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education, Office of Personnel Management and Treasury Department were temporarily barred by a federal judge on Monday from disclosing the “personally identifiable information” of a lawsuit’s plaintiffs and organization members to Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/03/24/repub/judge-bars-doge-access-to-sensitive-personal-information-at-3-federal-agencies/?

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Editorial: Kneecapping Social Security could mean misery for millions

How do you say, “I am going to break Social Security” without actually saying “I am going to break Social Security”?

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/03/25/pulling-the-plug-on-social-security-step-by-step-editorial/?

ps:Exactly!! This is nothing but trying to give tax breaks to the wealthy!!!!!

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Scoop: Elon Musk, DOGE team will sit down with Fox News' Bret Baier

Fox News "Special Report" host Bret Baier will air an exclusive interview with Elon Musk and DOGE members during his show's 6pm ET time slot on Thursday, Axios has learned.

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/25/elon-musk-doge-interview-fox-news-bret-baier?

ps:Of course he'll do an interview with Fox! Why not seat down with Joe Scarborough??

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Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew

On President Donald Trump’s authority alone, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. Employees from Musk’s companies and those of his allies, as well as young staffers he’s recruited, are wresting authority from career workers and commandeering computer systems.

https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/?

Who’s Running the DOGE Wrecking Machine: The World’s Richest Man or a Little-Known Bureaucrat?

Insiders tell ProPublica that Amy Gleason is only in charge on paper, while Musk’s top lieutenants really run DOGE. One person who has been in meetings with Gleason described her as having “little to no actual decision making” responsibilities.

https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-leadership-elon-musk-amy-gleason-trump-ethics-conflict-of-interest?

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DOGE Keeps Trying to Dodge the Freedom of Information Act. So We’re Suing.

DOGE claims it’s not an “agency” that has to comply with FOIA. We don’t buy it — and so far judges haven’t, either.

https://theintercept.com/2025/03/24/intercept-lawsuit-doge-freedom-of-information-act/?

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? Spotted! Musk's DOGE team

The interview was conducted in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House. Photo: Fox News In his first interview with DOGE workers, Elon Musk described the group's work as a "revolution" to Fox News' Bret Baier last night, Axios' Ben Berkowitz writes. Why it matters: Until now, DOGE has mostly been a shadowy operation. Joe Gebbia, the Airbnb co-founder now working on streamlining the monthlong retirement process for government employees, told Baier: "This'll be an online digital process that will take just a few days at most." "We really believe that the government can have an Apple-Store-like experience — beautifully designed; great, easier experience; modern systems." Musk said: "[T]his is a revolution, and I think it might be the biggest revolution in the government since the original Revolution. But at the end of the day, America's gonna be in much better shape; America will be solvent; the critical programs that people depend upon will work; and it's gonna be a fantastic future." "But are we gonna get a lot of complaints along the way? Absolutely. ... One of the things I learned at PayPal was: You know who complains the loudest — and with the most amount of fake, righteous indignation? The fraudsters. It's a tell." Baier asked Musk the most astonishing thing he's found out in this process. "The sheer amount of waste and fraud in the government," Musk replied. "It is astonishing — it's mind-blowing. ... We routinely encounter wastes of a billion dollars or more, casually." ?️ Musk's status as a special government employee gives him 130 workdays (through May 29, counting weekends). Baier asked if he'll continue past that date. Musk said: "I think we will have accomplished most of the work required to reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars within that timeframe." Asked about issuing a progress report, Musk said: "Not really a report. We are cutting the waste and fraud in real time. So, every day that passes, our goal is to reduce the waste and fraud by $4 billion a day — every day, seven days a week. And so far, we are succeeding." ? "We actually want to be careful in the cuts," Musk continued. "So we want to measure twice, if not thrice, and cut once. And actually, that is our approach. [Democratic lawmakers] may characterize it as shooting from the hip, but it is anything but that." "Which is not to say we don't make mistakes. If we were to approach this with the standard of making no mistakes at all, that would be like saying someone in baseball has got to bat 1.000. ... So when we do make mistakes, we correct them quickly, and we move on." Full interview ...

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28-Year-Old DOGE Goon Installed as Head of Agency That Dared to Defy Musk

The young DOGE employee rakes in more than $120,000 a year.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/28-year-old-installed-as-head-of-the-us-institute-of-peace-which-defied-doge/?

ps:You have to wonder what these people are doing!! or should I say do they know what they're doing?????