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Dems torched over DOGE security claims after allowing 'wide-open' border, 'empowering Iran'
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Republicans slammed Democratic claims that DOGE's actions were potentially threatening to national security.
Democrats, led by Mark Warner, D-Va., vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, recently pressed White House chief of staff Susie Wiles over their "grave concern" that Musk and DOGE were illegally risking "exposure of classified and other sensitive information that jeopardizes national security and violates Americans’ privacy." Julia Johnson is a politics writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business, leading coverage of the U.S. Senate. She was previously a politics reporter at the Washington Examiner.
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One GOP Senate leadership aide remarked to Fox News Digital that it was "absurd" to suggest cutting wasteful spending through DOGE amounts to a security threat.