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For years, I have argued that the idea of balancing the budget by eliminating government “waste, fraud, and abuse” was a canard. In 2020, I wrote that “there really isn’t that much waste, fraud, and abuse in the system.” In 2024, when President-Elect Trump announced the creation of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, I said that the phrase was a meme with no real substance to it—Trump claimed DOGE would save money in part by…
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