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Trump frequently campaigned on the idea that he’d be a protector of free speech and religious freedoms. He’s also championed himself as a supporter of a free and open press.

The report, requested by Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), finds that DOGE used a number of tricks to inflate the value of its purported savings, including taking credit for ending leases that were already in the process of being terminated and falsely claiming to have canceled contracts that were left intact.

The report also finds that DOGE “did not provide sufficient information to verify the method used to calculate 96%” of savings purportedly achieved through grant cancellations.

And in cases where DOGE actually was responsible for terminating a contract or cancelling a lease, the report notes that it “did not consistently use its stated methodology for calculating savings or disclose limitations in a sufficient manner.”

Even in instances where the department followed its stated methodology, the report adds, “it did not account for many complexities and nuances of federal contracting,” such as obligations or settlement cost.

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Asked about Trump's insistence that politically-motivated vandals are to blame for the setbacks to his makeover of the pool – which cost $14.7 million but saw it turn green with algae as soon as it was refilled – Dennison-Gibby said she had felt nauseous when she heard his comments.

"To be called out by the most powerful person in the world, the president of the United States, and called a sick, violent vandal when all I had done was pick up a piece of trash was awful," she told The Post.

Big Oil says it deserves immunity because it shouldn’t be penalized for giving the public what it wants. In a joint statement, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers President and CEO Chet Thompson and American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Mike Sommers said: “These efforts to retroactively penalize companies for lawfully meeting consumer demand are misguided and counterproductive.”

What they didn’t say is that they have worked for years to prevent fair competition from renewables. It’s why the state of Michigan launched an antitrust lawsuit against ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, and others because they acted “as a cartel … to forestall meaningful competition from renewable energy in order to maintain their dominance.”

An opaque nonprofit affiliated with Senate Republicans, One Nation, has blanketed Georgia over the last five days with a new ad attacking Senator Jon Ossoff (D). The group has spent $1.7 million in less than a week, delivering 78 million impressions of the ad across the state, according to data from AdImpact.