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Is Peter Dutton listening to Trump?

Government efficiency is an election-winning issue for those with courage

8 January 2025

1:00 AM

8 January 2025

1:00 AM

President Trump is creating the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to eliminate harmful and useless layers of bureaucracy. This may be an even more radical assault on costly government impositions than that of Argentinian President Milei, who in his first year of office consolidated 18 government ministries into nine and fired 50,000 government workers.

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