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Update: Department of Government Efficiency removes 31 more incorrect claims -- and $122M in savings -- from its "Wall of Receipts" after we identified they were wrong. The listings were wrong b/c the contracts DOGE claimed credit for killing were not dead anymore: agencies had revived them.

Here is what we confirmed: After Musk’s rise to power in the U.S. government, the State Department has repeatedly coaxed, lobbied and browbeat this tiny West African country into giving business to Musk’s satellite company Starlink. propublica.org/article/trump-…

DOGE went looking for phone fraud at SSA — and found almost none nextgov.com/digital-govern…

NEW: @doge tries --- and, so far, fails -- to investigate another government budget watchdog, the Government Accountability Office. nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/…

“It’s absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency,” Karoline Leavitt said, before Trump headed to his golf club to dine with 220 people who bought his memecoin, which generates fees for a Trump business entity. nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/…

DOGE claims to be responsible for $175B in estimated savings but investigative reporter David Fahrenthold tells Inside Politics, "A lot of that claim is not substantiated at all. They haven't shown us the receipts... When you look closely, you find that there's huge errors."

New from Washington Post Investigations: We wanted to understand why youth crime shot up so stunningly in D.C. in 2023. Today, we published a multi-part investigation into the city's failure to both prevent and address the epidemic. Each part threaded here. Thank you for reading! 1/x

Texas officials have long worried about the dangers to children who packed into camps each summer along the flood-prone Guadalupe River. They knew that warning systems were inadequate. So why was nothing done? We have reviewed documents spanning a decade to find answers. 🧵 1/9

This was an incredibly moving story by the Washington Post's Arelis R. Hernández.

NEW TONIGHT: @IRS says that churches can now endorse candidates from the pulpit, carving out an exemption to a decades-old ban on politicking by tax-exempt nonprofits. nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/…

Good question! The documents that the IRS filed tonight only formally apply to one case in Texas. But the IRS is using them to state a broader belief about how the law applies to everyone nationwide.

NEW: IRS says that churches can now endorse candidates from the pulpit -- granting them an exemption from a 70 year-old ban on politicking by tax-exempt groups. nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/…

NEW: I tried to interview Joe Biden for my book on the 2024 election. I called his cell phone, and he agreed but cut it short as he boarded an Amtrak train. His aides then changed his number. NYT excerpt of 2024, w Josh Dawsey + Isaac Arnsdorf —out today! nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/…

We've dropped the paywall on all of our flood coverage at Texas Monthly. Our journalists have been in the field with first responders, former campers, and those affected since last week. There are so many stories that deserve telling. texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

We have been mapping and studying the known flood risks at Camp Mystic. It turns out that not only was the camp in a flood zone, some cabins were located in areas that local county officials had deemed “extremely hazardous.” Here is more of what we found. 🧵 1/9

NEW: The V.A. was under pressure to slash spending. Then it started to feed Department of Government Efficiency misleading budget cuts, inflating its progress. nytimes.com/2025/07/14/us/…

U.S. Quietly Drafts Plan to End Program That Saved Millions From AIDS PEPFAR, the campaign to end H.I.V. globally, would morph into an effort to detect disease outbreaks and sell American products, according to documents obtained by The Times. nytimes.com/2025/07/23/hea…

NEW: What happened to the MAGA Instant Pot? A tale of a company -- and an appliance -- trying and failing to navigate Washington's new rules. nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/…

Why we almost got a "Make America Great Again" Instant Pot. nytimes.com/video/business…

NEW: How conservative Christians convinced the I.R.S. to grant them an exemption from a 70 year-old law, and let them endorse candidates from the pulpit. nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/…