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MadameButterfly

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7. Can someone please keep track of all the waste from DOGE

Reply to lostincalifornia (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 07:15 AM

Sep 24

and other ridiculous expenses like military parades and sending deportees via military carriers (and deporting people at all)
So we can compare it to all the cost cutting Elon was bragging about.

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Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE [View all] lostincalifornia Sep 24 OP

Imagine that. marble falls Sep 24 #1

Yup, just like the rest of this administration, absolute incompetence. Biophilic Sep 24 #2

Gods, there is a part of me that wants them all to tell the orange gibbon to Frak right off! OldBaldy1701E Sep 24 #3

So much winning. yardwork Sep 24 #4

Since Trump doesn't really work, he thinks no one else does either MadameButterfly Sep 24 #5

Chaos and waste because of incompetence. DOGE just slashed and burned with no forethought surfered Sep 24 #6

Oh, they had forethought... slightlv Sep 24 #9

Can someone please keep track of all the waste from DOGE MadameButterfly Sep 24 #7

Sounds like a lot of waste, fraud or abuse to me Walleye Sep 24 #8

Seven-month paid vacation progressoid Sep 24 #10

Quelle surprise! TomSlick Sep 24 #11

Clearly, That Group Of Know-Nothings... ProfessorGAC Sep 24 #12