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that Doge, that would of course be the Department of Governmental Efficiency under the tutelage

of Elon Musk, has been a giant fail. We've been hearing this from the legacy media who have

been saying that all the cuts are basically fake, that nothing is happening, that it's chaos,

that is wrecking the country.

No on Social Security check has been stopped. The Medicaid checks are still going out.

The Medicare checks are still going out. The government, unfortunately, to my mind, is still

running much as before. However, much spending has in fact really been stopped. There's been

an open question as to how much spending will be permanently stopped,

how much can be temporarily frozen versus actually just cut,

will firing these employees actually stick?

But Democrats are caterwauling because, as it turns out,

Doge actually has been quite effective in stopping an enormous amount of spending.

Is it trillions of dollars?

No.

Is it hundreds of billions of dollars?

The answer apparently is yes.

According to Reuters, President Trump's administration has so far withheld at least $436.87 billion

of congressionally approved funding the top Democrats on the U.S. Congress's Appropriation

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