The Rachel Maddow Show
The Rachel Maddow Show
Rachel Maddow, MSNBC
Busted: DOGE humiliated by brutal fact-checking, walks back bogus savings claims
43 minutes Posted Feb 26, 2025 at 5:43 am.
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Elon Musk's DOGE team removed key items from its "wall of receipts" after journalists fact-checked their boasts of billions in savings from cuts to federal programs and exposed sloppy errors and outright falsehoods. Rachel Maddow reports on the walk back taking place shortly after a withering rebuke from a federal judge for not complying with an order to allow funding to continue, all amid the embarrassment of having to un-fire federal workers recklessly let go without consideration for the necessity of their role.