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GOP budget hawks furious with MAGA for ignoring waste

Summary by Alternet
After President Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20, 2025, his administration carried out a program of mass layoffs in the federal government and did so with the help of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its then-leader, Elon Musk. A broad range of agencies were targeted for major downsizing, from the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Democratic critics of the eff…

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Alternet broke the news in Washington, United States on Thursday, February 12, 2026.
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