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Red states launch DOGE efforts to purge wasteful spending
Eight red states from Iowa to Texas started versions of President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency to stop wasteful spending — while politicians on each side of the aisle insist they were doing DOGE before DOGE was cool. State policymakers …