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DOGE Shrank the Payroll, Not the Deficit


The Department of Government Efficiency launched on Inauguration Day 2025 with a promise to cut $2 trillion from federal spending. When its charter expired on July 4, 2026, it claimed $215 billion in savings, a figure its own records could not fully document and that Congress’s own auditors could not verify.

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