DOGE set out to save trillions. Here are the results.

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  Good morning. It's Wednesday, April 30th.

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  I'm Shemita Basu.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  On today's show, the U.N. weighs in on Israel's humanitarian aid blockade,

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  how the families of deportees are coping,

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  and everyone's favorite TV painter Bob Ross gets his own happy little exhibition.

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  But first,

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  when Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency got to Washington at the start of Trump's second term,

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  they made some big promises,

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  chief among them to cut waste and fraud from federal spending and make the government more efficient in order to save American taxpayers money.

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  Musk originally said Doge would find $2 trillion in savings.

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  Then he lowered the goal to $1 trillion, then again to $150 billion.

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  But Doge has struggled to reach even that very lowest target.

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  The Doge team claims to have saved $160 billion,

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  but reporting shows their accounting is inflated and riddled with miscalculations and errors,

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  so it's hard to know what exactly they've accomplished.

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  Doge's goals are hitting up against what budget experts and the government's own watchdogs have long said.

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  Finding and eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse isn't a path to big fiscal savings.

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  There simply isn't enough of it.

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  The bulk of federal spending is associated with Social Security and Medicare,

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