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Ā Ā Ā Ā  Between Elon Musk’s brief, disastrous tenure with the misnamed ā€œDepartment of Government Efficiencyā€ (DOGE) and the Republicans’ mad rush to gut health care and food assistance for millions of lower-income Americans, you’d think they’d just discovered a massive cabal of diehard leftist criminals committing ā€œfraud, waste, and abuseā€ in the federal budget. Of course, any pretext that all this was in the interest of reducing the deficit was belied when Trump’s Big Ugly Bill handed the giant corporations and the richest among us billions in tax cuts they don’t need.