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White House Expands DOGE Powers, Reveals New Acting Administrator
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The Spin
Republican narrative
DOGE represents a necessary and courageous effort to confront an oversized bureaucracy that has operated without sufficient oversight for too long, bringing much-needed private sector efficiency standards to government operations and tackling waste that previous administrations have ignored.
Democratic narrative
The DOGE initiative, while claiming to target government waste, is actually undermining critical government services through arbitrary cuts and creating chaos in federal agencies, with its reported savings being riddled with accounting errors and misrepresentations.