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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

DOGE agents dispatched across the country, report says

Agents representing Donald Trump’s newly-formed “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) – the non-governmental agency being spearheaded by tech billionaire duo Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy - tasked with trimming excess federal spending – have already set to work, even before the new president has been inaugurated.

Surrogates for DOGE, which is still very much a work-in-progress, have already visited 12 federal agencies for preliminary interviews with staffers about the running of those workplaces, The Washington Post reports.

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