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How A 25-Year-Old DOGE Staffer Set Policy at USDA DOGE Vastly Overstated Its Real Estate Cuts — Then Spent Two Months Backtracking Inside DOGE’s EPA Team and Its Multimillion-Dollar Mistakes
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DOGE
DOGE Is Touting Its ‘Greatest Hits.’ A Closer Look Reveals Crushing Cuts. DOGE’s Victory Lap Overstates Its Own Work and Contradicts Its Own Estimates DOGE Has Disrupted Washington — But Not Its Bottom Line
DOGE Has Cut Tens of Thousands of Awards. Musk’s Companies Haven’t Lost a Dime in Federal Funds. The White House’s Budget Wishlist Calls for $163 Billion in Cuts That Codify DOGE DOGE Posts — Then Redacts — Sensitive HUD Contract Data
White House
The Trump Administration Is Championing the Lunar Program Trump Once Sought to Eliminate Trump and Mamdani Had a Surprisingly Friendly White House Meeting Trump Suggests Sedition Charges and ‘DEATH’ for Democrats Who Told Troops to Refuse Illegal Orders
Trump Leaves China Meeting With Key Assurances, But No Formal Trade Agreement Trump Says He’s ‘Only Cutting Democrat Programs’ During Shutdown Trump Says He’s Discussing a Health Care Deal With Democrats. That’s News to Them.
Congress
Raúl Grijalva Is Running to Lead Natural Resources Again. Democrats Say He’s Not Up to the Job. ‘Mostly Trolling’: GOP Lawmakers Laugh Off Trump’s Calls to ‘Absorb’ Canada
‘There’s a Distinction’: Republicans Want to ‘Move Forward’ From Trump’s Pardons — And Investigate Biden’s ‘RedNote’ Becomes a ‘Red Scare’: Republicans Already Want to Ban This TikTok Alternative
Nearly a Billion Dollars in DOGE ‘Savings’ Disappeared Overnight

Despite promising weekly updates and sporadically touting new contract cancellations on social media, DOGE did not update a single line of its savings website from the end of March through Monday, according to a NOTUS analysis. Then, just after midnight on Tuesday, DOGE added scores of new cancellations, quietly removed hundreds of others and altered the claimed savings of hundreds more.

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