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The world's richest man and his allies are "avoiding office hours at all costs" as they take a wrecking ball to the US government.
“We're getting paid but just sitting here.”
A DOGE-backed site purporting to track government waste displays an empty template advertising a fake architecture firm.
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The true believers react, or not, to his surprising new stance. Mother Jones illustration; Andrew Harnik/Getty
“Be unapologetically right-wing. It will pay off.”
Attacks on two small agencies focused on foreign aid are working against MAGA's supposed goals.
The silence around a Pentagon press secretary tells a bigger story.
The order targets the funding for Voice of America, which has been in the Trump administration’s crosshairs in recent weeks.
Afterward, the disinformation merchant and early QAnon promoter posed for a photo with FBI director Kash Patel.
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