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Feb 26 2025
09:38 am
Elon Musk's DOGE team removed key items from its "wall of receipts" after journalists fact-checked their boasts of billions in savings from cuts to federal programs and exposed sloppy errors and outright falsehoods.
Busted: DOGE humiliated by brutal fact-checking, walks back bogus savings claims
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