Mike Dabosky
speaker
336 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 17 Sep
Mike Dabosky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So we just told you about how the government raising interest rates could impact your spending.
Well, as it turns out, the government itself has been doing some pretty big spending of its own.
If you think back to the early days of the Trump administration, the Department of Government efficiency was on a tear, slashing programs, offices, and positions across the federal government.
Doge, as it was called, pitched this effort as a way to cut down on bureaucracy.
Here's how Elon Musk, who ran the program, described it.
We are trying to sort of right-size the federal bureaucracy, just make sure that this obviously needs to be there need to be a lot of people working with the federal government, but not as many as currently.
Part of this effort was what came to be known as the fork in the road.
That was the subject line of an email that some federal workers received last year inviting them to.
Take a one-time offer to leave the workforce and get paid through September of 2025.
Some 140,000 of them did, and now, one year later, we're getting a look at exactly how much that cost.
Ben Siegel, our deputy political director here at ABC, has been covering this for us.
Okay, Ben, this is a new watchdog report.
Tell us where this came from and what
Right, so a really big increase.
Uh Doge's whole goal was to save the government money.
Were they effective in that
Yeah, so if you take all those data points then, Ben, as you said, kinda all over the map
Do we have any insight into what the future of federal government cuts could look like?
Does this give us any sort of clue with regards to, you know, future employment for federal employees?
Well, Ben Siegel, I know you're gonna continue to track this for us.
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