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DOGE Was A Giant Failure, Part Infinity

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DOGE was a giant scam perpetrated on the American people. It was presented as a major cost-saving initiative. It was really a data mining scam where unknowing Americans had all of their confidential data copied and saved to Elon Musk's DOGE team, to be used or sold or manipulated in - so far - unknown ways. A government watchdog released an incredible report looking back on the work that DOGE did - and did not - do. To say that the findings were shocking would be an understatement The Washington Post reports that DOGE "consistently overstated its savings in online posts, taking credit for lease cancellations initiated before the group existed...DOGE also claimed contracts were terminated that had not been and loaded its database with savings that could not be verified, the report said." The audit spanned the period of June 2025 through the end of July 2026, so roughly 14 months. The GAO examined claims of savings that DOGE made after it bulldozed through federal agencies. The audit was

First report: Congress’ Watchdog Is Still Struggling to Get Answers on DOGE — notus.org, 6d