President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has confirmed that one’s own outrage may persist even amid unfathomable absurdities.
In other words, I had wondered if I might grow numb to the near-daily revelation of federal waste and fraud. It turns out, however, that DOGE, headed by Trump ally Elon Musk, retains its power to scandalize.
Wednesday on the social media platform X, DOGE shared the results of its “initial” investigation into recent unemployment insurance claims, which showed that since 2020, nearly 38,000 people either between the ages of 1 and 5 or with birth dates listed as 2040 or beyond claimed a combined $323 million in benefits.
The specifics of the DOGE survey broke down as follows:
Musk’s department discovered that “24.5k people over
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