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DOGE claims savings of $881 million from ending education research contracts. Nat Malkus of AEI checks the receipts and finds that number an "arbitrary mishmash" based on "incoherent" premises. Not only that, "much of this money has already been spent." A more realistic estimate? $198 million.
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