Reruns that always annoy are the political ads, which start before primaries and continue until the day before the November election. No political ad I’ve seen promises to reduce or eliminate the national debt, now racing toward an unsustainable $40 trillion. Musk falsely claimed DOGE saved the taxpayers $110.3 billion, even if true, a drop in the spending bucket, but still something Musk bragged about. Credit DOGE, however, with reducing the size of the bloated federal workforce by hundreds of thousands of jobs. DOGE claimed it managed to get the Pentagon’s health agency to cancel a $1.7 billion technology contract, but GAO investigators said the contract was never cut or even reduced.