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This is such a lazy argument. Whenever I see someone complaining that a news outlet isn’t reporting some specific issue, it’s usually just laziness on the part of the person making that claim.

Can you clarify what "crazy stuff" you'd like them to report on? The actual crazy claims (100 mil on condoms, 150 year old people collecting social security, millions on transgender plays) all fall apart under scrutiny. There is plenty that I'm certainly open to calling waste (e.x. the foreign art program that said much less expensive play was a part of), but I've yet to see anything actually crazy nor the fraud that we keep hearing about.

And most of this was already public via the various government data portals, e.x. https://www.usaspending.gov/

Meanwhile the Whitehouse refuses to say who is actually in charge of DOGE. We have Trump saying it's Musk in public, and court filings saying it isn't and an Administrator the white house refuses to name.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/07/asia/us-afghanistan-spending-...

I know that one is older but it was a quick 1 minute google search. I’m sure you can search for others if you’re really interested in checking.

Sounds like the story has confirmation thru several sources.

This is a logical fallacy, tu quoque.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism