{"id":166508,"date":"2025-02-14T09:05:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T14:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=166508"},"modified":"2025-02-14T07:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T12:20:23","slug":"politico-reporter-no-evidence-shown-of-doge-discovered-waste-and-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=166508","title":{"rendered":"Politico reporter: No evidence shown of DOGE discovered waste and abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Politico’s Eugene Daniels appeared on “Washington Week” with The Atlantic, as one of the commenters. A segment shows them talking about USAID and other DOGE audits. Daniels claimed that neither the Trump administration nor DOGE has provided evidence of the waste and abuse that had been exposed. Daniels explained that “things will be missed” when people work in a large organization.<\/p>\n

From Real Clear Politics (video transcript):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

JEFFREY GOLDBERG, THE ATLANTIC, HOST: But I have to ask, I mean, there are many documented cases of government waste, including in USAID. I’ve covered countries where USAID was not the most efficient deliverer of services. Did they set themselves up in a kind of way? Was there a kind of a laxity in the way that these things were administered that allowed this to happen, or is that just an unfair —<\/p>\n

EUGENE DANIELS, POLITICO: I mean, I think when you have a bunch of humans doing one thing and the bigger the organization gets, there’s always going to be some thing that is missed. I think what we have not —<\/p>\n

GOLDBERG: This show, for instance.<\/p>\n

DANIELS: But what we’ve seen — what we have not seen from Elon Musk or this administration is in the evidence of all of this abuse that they’re talking about, right? Like they say they’ve gone in, they found all of this waste that has been happening. We haven’t seen it.<\/p>\n

I will say though, it matters — it’s a test case and it matters who or what organizations or groups of people push back. We’re not seeing a lot of pushback on the Hill, where there’s absolute — where they are supposed to have the power of the purse. They created these organizations. Republicans are not saying anything. I’ve talked to many of them, Republicans. Why do you think you don’t have the power?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Schwartz, I. (2025, February 8). Politico’s Eugene Daniels: We have not seen evidence of waste and abuse at USAID that Elon Musk is talking about. Real Clear Politics<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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