{"id":38830,"date":"2025-12-23T18:14:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=38830"},"modified":"2025-12-23T18:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:14:52","slug":"did-doge-really-cut-government-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=38830","title":{"rendered":"Did DOGE Really Cut Government Spending?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Did DOGE Really Cut Government Spending?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">Did DOGE really cut government spending? A New York Times analysis found that the group\u2019s biggest claims were largely incorrect, and that its many smaller cuts added up to few savings. Our reporters David Fahrenthold and Margot Sanger-Katz explain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By David A. Fahrenthold, Margot Sanger-Katz, Alexandra Ostasiewicz, James Surdam, Whitney Shefte and Ray Whitehouse<\/p>\n<p>December 23, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Did DOGE Really Cut Government Spending? Did DOGE really cut government spending? A New York Times analysis found that the group\u2019s biggest claims were largely incorrect, and that its many smaller cuts added up to few savings. Our reporters David Fahrenthold and Margot Sanger-Katz explain. By David A. Fahrenthold, Margot Sanger-Katz, Alexandra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[304,3922,558,1580],"class_list":{"0":"post-38830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-cut","9":"tag-doge","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-spending"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}