News

DOGE Is Accused of Wasting $21.7 Billion in Just 6 Months

Here are five takeaways from Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal's new 54-page report accusing DOGE of waste.
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DOGE still chomping away at enviro spending

Advertised cuts include Interior Department contracts and an EPA grant for lead pipe detection approved by the first Trump ...

Senate Democrats Estimate DOGE Caused Billions of Dollars In Government Waste

Democrats on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations yesterday released a jaw-dropping report attempting to ...

Senate Democrats push legislation to get answers on DOGE’s security issues

They’re demanding an audit to determine whether DOGE employees — deliberately or not — created vulnerabilities through their ...
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DOGE and other day 1 Trump appointees head for the exits at multiple agencies

The Interior Department and General Services Administration are seeing significant turnover in the leadership ranks.

DOGE develops innovative AI tool to eliminate unnecessary federal regulations

The Trump administration's DOGE developed an AI tool to review 200,000 federal regulations, aiming to cut about half of ...
Opinion

Trump's jaunts to golf courses and Super Bowl should be on DOGE chopping block | Letters

Where is Musk when you need him? We were told waste is being cut, but taxpayers are on the hook for president's golfing and Super Bowl trips.

Trump suggests DOGE should 'take a good, hard look' at government contracts with Musk's companies

He said on Truth Social the US could "save a fortune" if there were "no more rocket launches, satellites." ...

Musk gave $15M to support Trump, Republicans after White House split, called for new party weeks later

Elon Musk contributed $5 million each to three major GOP super PACs while he was sharply criticizing President Donald Trump on social media last month.