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DOGE fucked us

2025-08-03 05:06:48.889931+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Today in "no shit": 'DOGE lied': Expert floored as blistering report finds Musk team blew billions

The staff report released by the office of Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.)—the ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI)—only focuses on waste by DOGE that can be quantified in the here and now. It finds that in just six months of operation, DOGE wasted more than $21 billion.

skry @skry@mastodon.social

‘As economics writer Maia Mindel summarized in a post on X:

"Okay, yeah, so DOGE was illegal and didn't cancel any big-ticket items and also it didn't increase government efficiency and it lied about all its accomplishments and also none of its staff were even remotely qualified.

But at least a million Africans died. Take that, libs."’

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