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   From: bks@panix.com   
      
   >>>>>>>> | The Failed DOGE Experiment Ends With Whimper, Not Bang   
      
    |   
    | Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency said it   
    | made more than 29,000 cuts to the federal government --   
    | slashing billion-dollar contracts, canceling thousands of   
    | grants and pushing out civil servants.   
    |   
    | But the group did not do what Mr. Musk said it would:   
    | reduce federal spending by $1 trillion before October. On   
    | DOGE's watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It   
    | went up.   
    |   
    | How is that possible?   
    |   
    | One big reason, according to a New York Times analysis:   
    | Many of the largest savings that DOGE claimed turned out to   
    | be wrong.   
    | ...   
      
      
       --bks   
      
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