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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Mary Papenfuss

‘Pennies!’ Financial reporter mocks minuscule DOGE savings amid Musk talk of ‘dividends’

The savings claimed by tech billionaire Elon Musk eked out by his Department of Government Efficiency are worth negligible “pennies,” a Wall Street Journal reporter mocked in a CNN interview Thursday.

The Journal's senior political correspondent Molly Ball was reacting to Musk and Trump’s consideration of some kind of DOGE “dividends” purported to be worth thousands of dollars to Americans with the money they’re claiming to have snatched back shutting down foreign aid and via the salaries of fired thousands of federal workers.

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