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Ganahl: Congress must back DOGE to cut waste and energize GOP voters for 2026
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Ganahl: Congress must back DOGE to cut waste and energize GOP voters for 2026

By Heidi Ganahl | Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Under President Donald Trump, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—led by Elon Musk—is lighting a fire under Republican voters ready to rip out Washington’s waste at the roots. Launched in February 2025 via Executive Order 14158, DOGE has identified $175 billion in savings through asset sales, contract cancellations, and fraud crackdowns, including more than 12 million supposed Social Security recipients listed as over 120 years old—zombie accounts draining taxpayer dollars.  DOGE’s mission to eliminate waste has the people behind it—73% of Americans, including 89% of Republicans, support the effort. That kind of backing makes it a political powerhouse. Yet, as of now, Congress has not voted on codifying DOGE’s p...
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“Thank you, President Trump”: Musk exits DOGE, $175B saved—says mission will endure
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“Thank you, President Trump”: Musk exits DOGE, $175B saved—says mission will endure

By Hank Berrien | Daily Wire “The DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government”  On Wednesday night, Elon Musk made it clear that the reason he was leaving his role leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project was due to a rule limiting special government employees to 130 days of service rather than any rumored feud with President Donald Trump. This week, Musk publicly criticized the tax and spending package championed by Trump, saying, “I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing.” Musk’s departure from government work coincides with his recent remarks indicating he would focus m...
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DOGE flags $370B in waste: Social Security purges 12.3M phantom accounts aged 120+
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DOGE flags $370B in waste: Social Security purges 12.3M phantom accounts aged 120+

By Hannah Knudsen | Breitbart Social Security has removed from its rolls 12.3 million individuals listed as 120 years old or older, according to the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The discrepancies in the Social Security figures and the alarming ages of some of the individuals listed have garnered national attention over the last several months. As a result, in March DOGE began to update the American people on the massive cleanup begun by Social Security. In a March 18 update, DOGE said Social Security had marked 3.2 million social security number holders aged 120 or older as deceased, warning that there was still more work to be done. https://twitter.com/DOGE/status/1901882509463630073 Over one month later, on April 24, DOGE provided another update, reve...
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Walcher: Want to fix Congress? Break the budget process first
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Walcher: Want to fix Congress? Break the budget process first

By Greg Walcher | Commentary, GregWalcher.com A popular blogger called Taylor Cone gave some great advice for budding inventors, discussing the process of prototyping: build it, then break it, then fix it. That’s a strategy Congress ought to try. The House Appropriations Committee, Congress’s most powerful panel, has 63 members, only 8 of whom have ever voted to do what the law requires of them, namely, to pass 12 appropriation bills to fund government agencies and programs. In fact, Congress has passed the required bills on time only 4 times in the last 40 years, the last time 26 years ago. Only 25 of the 435 House members and 8 of the 100 Senators were even in Congress then, all of them now in their 70s, 80s, and 90s. They may not even remember how it was supposed to work. The b...
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DOGE deactivates 500,000 government-issued credit cards
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DOGE deactivates 500,000 government-issued credit cards

By Cullen McCue | Trending Politics The Department of Government Efficiency announced Wednesday that it had deactivated more than 500,000 government-issued credit cards as part of a rapidly-expanding audit that is expected to result in additional deactivations. “The program to audit unused/unneeded credit cards has been expanded to 32 agencies. After 10 weeks, more than 500K cards have been de-activated,” DOGE announced in an X post. The department noted that at the start of the audit, there were roughly 4.6 million active credit cards or accounts.When DOGE last provided an update on its credit card audit on March 11, the department had cancelled a little more than 200,000 cards across 16 agencies, representing a massive increase of cancellations in the latest update. “So still more ...
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DOGE refers dozens of voter fraud cases to DOJ 
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DOGE refers dozens of voter fraud cases to DOJ 

By Julia Shapero and Alex Gangitano | The Hill Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has referred dozens of alleged cases of voter fraud to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for prosecution, one of his staff said Wednesday.  Antonio Gracias, a long time Musk ally who is working for DOGE in the Social Security Administration, said the cost-cutting panel had identified 57 resident aliens who had registered to vote.  “We’ve referred many prosecutions to the DOJ, and they’re working on them now,” he said at a briefing with Musk and a small group of reporters, READ THE FULL STORY AT THE HILL
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Biden stumbles through first post-Trump speech
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Biden stumbles through first post-Trump speech

By Nathan Gay | Daily Wire Former President Joe Biden broke his three-month silence Tuesday evening, addressing Social Security in his first public speech since President Trump took office. Biden addressed a gathering of advocates for disabled people in Chicago, accusing Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency of trying to “dismantle” Social Security. Biden, already 30 minutes late, was off to a rough start as the former president appeared to begin reading off the teleprompter while the walkout music was still playing, seemingly oblivious to the fact that he was inaudible to the audience. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DAILY WIRE
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DOGE: Criminal aliens paroled by Biden took in $1.3 Million in taxpayer handouts  
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DOGE: Criminal aliens paroled by Biden took in $1.3 Million in taxpayer handouts  

By M.D. Kittle | The Federalist While the left goes about its little “Hands Off!” temper-tantrum, their leaders have forced Americans to pick up the tab in government benefits for “paroled” illegal immigrants convicted of crimes — even suspected terrorists.  The Biden administration paid out at least  $1.3 million in Medicaid, student loans, tax refunds, and other federal government benefits and payments to thousands of paroled aliens with criminal or terrorist records, according to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). “Under the Biden administration, it was routine for [U.S.] Border Patrol to admit aliens into the United States with no legal status and minimal screening,” the government fat trimmer said Friday in an X post.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE...
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Elon Musk’s DOGE discovers millions in taxpayer dollars wasted on unemployment claims for ‘fake people’
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Elon Musk’s DOGE discovers millions in taxpayer dollars wasted on unemployment claims for ‘fake people’

By Patrick Reilly | New York Post Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) revealed in a bombshell finding that millions of dollars in unemployment claims have been going to “fake people” who haven’t even been born yet — some not even in this century. DOGE claimed it reviewed an initial survey of unemployment claims since 2020 that found that 9,700 people whose birth dates aren’t for another 15 years have claimed $69 million in benefits. In one absurd case, a person whose birthday was listed in the year 2154 claimed $41,000, according to an X post by the department. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE NEW YORK POST
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From Fort Collins to the Capitol, “Hands Off!” protestors shriek over Trump and Musk’s government overhaul
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From Fort Collins to the Capitol, “Hands Off!” protestors shriek over Trump and Musk’s government overhaul

By Robert Garrison | The Associated Press via Denver7 WASHINGTON — Opponents of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk rallied across Colorado and the country Saturday to protest the administration's actions on government downsizing, the economy, human rights and other issues. Nationally, more than 1,200 “Hands Off!” demonstrations took place, organized by more than 150 groups, including civil rights organizations, labor unions, LBGTQ+ advocates, veterans and elections activists. In Colorado, thousands gathered at several locations across the state, including on the steps of the Colorado State Capitol. Protesters also demonstrated in Arvada, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, and Loveland. They also took place at the National Mall in W...
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