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Busted: DOGE humiliated by brutal fact-checking, walks back bogus savings claims by MSNBC

Busted: DOGE humiliated by brutal fact-checking, walks back bogus savings claims

from The Rachel Maddow Show

by MSNBC

Published: Wed Feb 26 2025

Show Notes

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. Rachel Maddow reports on the walk back taking place shortly after a withering rebuke from a federal judge for not complying with an order to allow funding to continue, all amid the embarrassment of having to un-fire federal workers recklessly let go without consideration for the necessity of their role.

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