Senate Dems: DOGE Work Created ‘$21.7B Blunder’

Senate Democrats say what the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) called spending cuts amount to a “$21.7 billion blunder.”

In a 55-page report released by minority Democrats on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, they claim that instead of saving money with spending reductions and staff cuts, DOGE has wasted $21.7 billion “despite its ostensible goal of eliminating government waste.”

The report, released Thursday, claimed, “The waste generated by DOGE in six months could have fully covered the President’s misguided rescissions package twice over — with $2.9 billion to spare.”

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