{
  "id": 764926,
  "title": "Elon Musk’s DOGE Promised Savings, But It’s Cost Us a Fortune",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/elon-musks-doge-promised-savings-but-its-cost-us-a-fortune",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-13T11:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mother Jones",
    "slug": "mother-jones",
    "url": "https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/gao-report-doge-elon-musk-overstated-savings-wall-receipts-waste-fraud-cost/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The US government doesn’t have many watchdogs left. Donald Trump fired a whole bunch of them shortly after returning to power, and many others have been pushed out since. We do still have a Government Accountability Office (GAO), for what it’s worth, and one week ago, that office published a report detailing the remarkable lack […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}