DOGE’s Fuzzy Math
The department’s current efforts—and Musk’s obsession with fraud—are not likely to make a dent in the country’s deficit.
Lora Kelley
Lora Kelley is an associate editor at The Atlantic and an author of the Atlantic Daily newsletter.
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