Does DOGE Show That There’s Little Government Waste?

Ryan Bourne

Matt Yglesias makes a point that we will hear a lot from Democrats in the coming months. Progressives will claim that because DOGE “failed” to live up to its ambitions to slash government spending by trillions, there must be little government waste. Indeed, economist Alan Blinder even says that Elon Musk should examine Social Security as a model of efficiency, given its administration costs only 0.5 percent of benefits paid out.

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