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PJ Vogt

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DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

So here, Bobby could actually see what Biden State Department's intentions had been. to set aside a relatively small amount of money to explore the possibility of making electric some of the armored cars that diplomats and other employees used to get around in places that could be dangerous.

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DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

So here, Bobby could actually see what Biden State Department's intentions had been. to set aside a relatively small amount of money to explore the possibility of making electric some of the armored cars that diplomats and other employees used to get around in places that could be dangerous.

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DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

Yeah, because you'd assume that a lot of places where diplomats are driving around in armored cars are not going to have Tesla superchargers every X amount of miles.

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DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

Yeah, because you'd assume that a lot of places where diplomats are driving around in armored cars are not going to have Tesla superchargers every X amount of miles.

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DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

Yeah, because you'd assume that a lot of places where diplomats are driving around in armored cars are not going to have Tesla superchargers every X amount of miles.

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DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

To be honest with you, I genuinely don't know whether our federal fleet of armored diplomatic vehicles should be electric or gas. I don't know if it's a good idea to spend $400,000-ish looking into it. If you were the head of Doge looking for cuts, you could convince me that this was a decent one to make. $400,000, back to the taxpayer.

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DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

To be honest with you, I genuinely don't know whether our federal fleet of armored diplomatic vehicles should be electric or gas. I don't know if it's a good idea to spend $400,000-ish looking into it. If you were the head of Doge looking for cuts, you could convince me that this was a decent one to make. $400,000, back to the taxpayer.

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DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

To be honest with you, I genuinely don't know whether our federal fleet of armored diplomatic vehicles should be electric or gas. I don't know if it's a good idea to spend $400,000-ish looking into it. If you were the head of Doge looking for cuts, you could convince me that this was a decent one to make. $400,000, back to the taxpayer.

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DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

But instead what happened is that $400,000-ish was turned into $400 million and earmarked for Tesla specifically. Tesla, a company which does not make armored vehicles and whose car windows did break that time Franz threw a big ball at them. I digress. Bobby had the document proving that the $400 million line item had not originated under Joe Biden. It had originated under Trump.

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DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

But instead what happened is that $400,000-ish was turned into $400 million and earmarked for Tesla specifically. Tesla, a company which does not make armored vehicles and whose car windows did break that time Franz threw a big ball at them. I digress. Bobby had the document proving that the $400 million line item had not originated under Joe Biden. It had originated under Trump.

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DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

But instead what happened is that $400,000-ish was turned into $400 million and earmarked for Tesla specifically. Tesla, a company which does not make armored vehicles and whose car windows did break that time Franz threw a big ball at them. I digress. Bobby had the document proving that the $400 million line item had not originated under Joe Biden. It had originated under Trump.

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DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

Bobby verified the document by finding other people who worked on that forecast. And now he had a new story. So he writes it up. He asked the State Department to provide a response and gets one.

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DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

Bobby verified the document by finding other people who worked on that forecast. And now he had a new story. So he writes it up. He asked the State Department to provide a response and gets one.

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DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

Bobby verified the document by finding other people who worked on that forecast. And now he had a new story. So he writes it up. He asked the State Department to provide a response and gets one.

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DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

Bobby published a story, and unlike a lot of the fact checks that I've seen come and go in the past couple months, this one actually got a fair amount of traction. For whatever reason, the idea of focusing on this one obscure, mysterious line item in a procurement forecast? That week, anyway, people seemed able to pay attention. Bobby had a theory as to why that might have been.

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DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

Bobby published a story, and unlike a lot of the fact checks that I've seen come and go in the past couple months, this one actually got a fair amount of traction. For whatever reason, the idea of focusing on this one obscure, mysterious line item in a procurement forecast? That week, anyway, people seemed able to pay attention. Bobby had a theory as to why that might have been.

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DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

Bobby published a story, and unlike a lot of the fact checks that I've seen come and go in the past couple months, this one actually got a fair amount of traction. For whatever reason, the idea of focusing on this one obscure, mysterious line item in a procurement forecast? That week, anyway, people seemed able to pay attention. Bobby had a theory as to why that might have been.

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DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

Here's what I know is gonna be one of the hardest things about the next four years, holding onto uncertainty, reminding ourselves of everything that we actually don't know.

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DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

Here's what I know is gonna be one of the hardest things about the next four years, holding onto uncertainty, reminding ourselves of everything that we actually don't know.

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DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

Here's what I know is gonna be one of the hardest things about the next four years, holding onto uncertainty, reminding ourselves of everything that we actually don't know.