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Department of War’s DOGE efforts don’t reduce expected spending, reallocate funding

By Mike Brest
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The Department of War, like the entire federal government in President Donald Trump’s second term, is trying to find and eliminate wasteful spending, but unlike other agencies, the administration wants to see defense spending increase to unprecedented heights.

One of the signature features of Trump’s first eight months in office has been the establishment of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), originally led by entrepreneur Elon Musk, to root out that waste.

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