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May 30, 2025 | DOGE Disappoints

Danielle Park

Portfolio Manager and President of Venable Park Investment Counsel (www.venablepark.com) Ms Park is a financial analyst, attorney, finance author and regular guest on North American media. She is also the author of the best-selling myth-busting book "Juggling Dynamite: An insider's wisdom on money management, markets and wealth that lasts," and a popular daily financial blog: www.jugglingdynamite.com

As I feared, DOGE has drastically undershot its targeted spending cuts. It’s hard to reduce overhead without the political will to reduce corporate subsidies and reform entitlement programs in a meaningful way. At the same time, the masses want tax cuts. The math is not mathing.

Elon Musk is done with the Department of Government Efficiency. The agency claims to have saved taxpayers more than $170 billion with its aggressive cost-cutting. Did DOGE live up to Musk’s promises? Here is a direct video link.

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May 30th, 2025

Posted In: Juggling Dynamite

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