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They also got rid of state financial obligations that Cuomo had stuck on the city, and cleaned up corruption from past administrations. Those were significant savings, too.
The point is that governments can be substantially improved with even a little actual reform and not duplicitous reform like DOGE. We can have change, it just takes voting in responsible, ethical government managers, not carnival barkers.
DOGE wasn't "reform," it was sabotage
That's what they are saying. It was duplicitous. It presented itself as reform but was not.
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