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DOGE caught the car. Now what?: From the Politics Desk

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Elon Musk's slash-and-burn approach to slashing government programs, contracts and jobs is having the opposite effect, sowing confusion that it has hamstrung the bureaucracy's ability to serve the public and carry out key parts of Trump ’s own agenda.

“The best employees are starting to look elsewhere,” said one Veterans Affairs official who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal.

During his first term, this issue was a rare bright spot for Trump in polling.

But in recent surveys, those numbers are reversed.

Democrats are sensing a potentially potent political weapon to use against Trump and the GOP in this fall's off-year elections and next year's midterms.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is plowing forward with a vote as early as this evening .

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