Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is delivering powerful anecdotes of wasteful government spending, inefficiencies, and fraud, but will continue to struggle to achieve permanent reductions without an act of Congress.
The DOGE website currently touts about $130 billion in savings spread across nearly every major government agency, at a total of about $807.45 per taxpayer. The effort has boasted some shocking finds, including an old mine shaft where federal employee retirement records are processed entirely by hand, $80 million in “wasted” funds at the Pentagon, and millions in controversial spending at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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