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Let's talk about Trump’s DOGE disaster dully disappearing….

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Let's talk about Trump’s DOGE disaster dully disappearing….

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0:00.0

Well howdy there, Internet people. It's Bill again. So today, we're going to talk about Trump's Doge disaster, Dully Disappearing.

0:13.0

Doge was Trump's flagship initiative in the first half of his second term. It set out to remake the federal government in the Trump-Musk image.

0:24.0

The Department of Government Efficiency was going to do amazing things. The promises were immense.

0:31.4

Initially, the initiative promised to cut $2 trillion from the U.S. federal budget. Trump even got behind the idea of handing out dividend checks to American citizens.

0:43.3

He wanted to hand 20% of the savings back to American households.

0:48.3

Promises of $5,000 checks were made.

0:52.3

But then, like most of his promises that idea

0:56.7

ran directly into the two main enemies of Trumpian promises math and reality

1:03.6

first the pledge of two trillion dollars in cuts started being walked back it was

1:09.7

cut in half and walked back to one trillion. Then reality

1:14.3

and math emerged again and the promises were walked back to 150 billion. The Doge website claims

1:22.2

it saved about 215 billion. But that number is, well, let's just say that number is debated. Independent audits

1:32.3

have suggested Doge wound up costing American taxpayers, not saving them. But for all of those

1:39.2

accusations, all we have to do is wait for the official report on its activities from the Trump administration.

1:47.0

Of course, there's one little problem with that.

1:50.0

On June 30th, House Appropriations Financial Services Subcommittee Chairman David Joyce, a Republican from Ohio, asked, quote,

2:01.9

Is there something that you're going to present,

2:04.5

or is there somewhere we can find what exactly Doge accomplished,

2:08.7

as far as reductions in dollars spent, people at agencies, or whatever?

2:14.5

Is there going to be some documentation of what took place? Trump's OMB director,

2:21.3

Russell Vaught, replied, quote, we have no plans to do kind of a closing Doge report. And there you have it.

2:30.9

There will be no Doge checks based on a household share of 20% of the savings. Because there

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