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"Elon Musk is right. The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th audit in a row," he said. "It’s lost track of billions. Last year, only 13 senators voted against the Military Industrial Complex and a defense budget full of waste and fraud. That must change."

Apparently, you can teach an old DOGE new tricks. Lefty Sen. Bernie Sanders turned heads Sunday with his support for President-elect Donald Trump’s planned new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — providing it takes aim at the Pentagon’s cushy budget.