DOGE Has a Math Problem

The Daily vor 1 Jahr

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Since President Trump took office, Elon Musk and DOGE have
wielded an unprecedented level of power to help the
administration cut the U.S. government, and they claim to have
stopped tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.

David A. Fahrenthold, an investigative reporter for The Times,
explains why those claims are not what they seem — and what that
tells us about Mr. Musk’s project to shrink the federal
bureaucracy.

Guest: David A. Fahrenthold, an investigative
reporter for The New York Times.

Background reading:

DOGE’s only public ledger has been riddled with mistakes.

The group has now deleted hundreds of claimed savings, worth
billions of dollars, from that ledger.

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