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   josh buermann (buermann@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Mar-2026 08:45:32 JST josh buermann

   Where's our $5,000 checks from DOGE?

   https://www.axios.com/2025/02/19/musk-doge-dividend-check

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     josh buermann (buermann@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Mar-2026 08:45:31 JST josh buermann

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     DOGE delegated gutting $100M from the National Endowment for the Humanities to ChatGPT, then Trump's acting chairman redirected the money to pet causes and personal friends, with $10M going just to Elliott Abrams' Tikvah Fund, amounting to an eight figure taxpayer grant to the neoconservative movement that Trump allegedly ran against and now serves.

     https://archive.is/9kCcq

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     josh buermann (buermann@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Mar-2026 08:45:32 JST josh buermann

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     Politico estimates that DOGE has managed -- in the process of destroying multiple avenues of American cultural power projection abroad, sentencing millions to early graves, and aborting much of America's investments in the scientific enterprise -- to save a whole $1.4B, enough savings to afford a tax credit of...

     Seventeen dollars and seventy two cents for 79 million qualifying households.

     https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/12/trump-doge-contract-claims-savings-inflation-00498178

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     josh buermann (buermann@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Mar-2026 08:45:32 JST josh buermann

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     Elon promised us $5,000 DOGE rebates and if we liquidated his entire fortune we could recover ten cents on the dollar of that unmentionable empty promise.

     https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-failed-to-deliver-on-2025-promises

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.