Opinion
Don’t buy DOGE’s fraud-is-everywhere fantasy
It’s chintzy rhetorical cover for an effort to slash legitimate spending and close or decimate useful federal agencies.
DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards
The restrictions are already in place at the General Services Administration along with several other agencies. Soon they’ll ...
Trump directly contradicts White House over who really runs DOGE, saying he ‘put a man named Elon Musk in charge’
On Wednesday, though, Trump contradicted his legal team, declaring: “I signed an order creating the Department of Government ...
A federal judge has denied states' bid to halt DOGE and Musk's work
A federal judge has denied a bid to temporarily halt DOGE from its controversial work at certain federal agencies. Meanwhile, the White House says Elon Musk is not technically DOGE's leader.
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DOGE didn’t ‘discover’ $2.7 trillion in improper payments in Medicare and Medicaid overseas
The nonpartisan US Government Accountability Office did, in March 2024, and the estimate includes all federal agencies since 2003 ...
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Does DOGE Pose a National Security Risk?
The department said that it was working with the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI to assess ...
Spared by DOGE—For Now
Other vital parts of how America responds to infectious diseases were not spared by the DOGE layoffs. Two training programs ...
Judge denies states' bid to curtail DOGE's powers
A group of 14 Democratic state attorneys general wants to block Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing federal data systems and making personnel decisions.
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DOGE attacks a bastion of Republican internationalism
Earlier this month the DOGE boss called Todd Young, a Republican senator, “a deep state puppet” for serving on the NED board.