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DOGE torched nearly $10 billion trying to root out waste, fraud and abuse: watchdog
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DOGE Paid Billions to Manufacture Government Failure
The Price of “Efficiency”
The Trump administration spent an estimated $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave while dismantling the federal workforce. According to the Government Accountability Office, leave usage rose 435 percent from 2023, with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency responsible for much of the increase. Its deferred-resignation program put more than 144,000 employees on leave and cost an estimated $6.7 billion.
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