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Some DOGE employees are earning six-figure taxpayer-funded salaries from the federal agencies they are shutting down
DOGE, Elon Musk’s cost-cutting government task force, was set up to eliminate inefficiencies—but some of its staff are reportedly earning hefty six-figure salaries while slashing federal jobs. Musk had initially claimed positions within DOGE would be “tedious work” where “compensation is zero.”
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