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Meet Brad Smith, DOGE’s invisible health care czar
The Trump administration’s U.S. DOGE Service — tasked with taking a hatchet to government spending and not looking back — was headlined by billionaire Elon Musk. But a leading figure within DOGE who just left and has gotten little attention built his entire career in health care: Brad Smith.
