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They Fired 270,000 People and Then Called 25,000 Back — One Year of DOGE Proved It Was Never About Efficiency
One year in, DOGEs legacy isnt the $160 billion in claimed savings but a $135 billion price tag, an estimated 793,000 deaths from aid cuts, and a demolished federal workforce now being desperately reassembled. The largest government downsizing experiment in American history delivered chaos, not efficiency — and the real bill is only beginning to arrive.