DOGE budget cuts are now causing expensive damage, bad news for cattle ranchers, immigrants wrongly flagged, and global disease response.

• A flesh-eating screwworm fly wiped out 50 years ago is back in Texas after DOGE cut the program that kept it out, with damage to cattle and wildlife that could run into billions.
• A whistleblower says DOGE pushed a plan to falsely declare 2.7 million living people legally dead to scare immigrants into self-deporting or showing up to be arrested.
• Cutting USAID and pulling out of the World Health Organization has weakened the U.S. response to a growing Ebola outbreak in central Africa.
• The cuts saved little money, while bigger targets like $35 billion in oil company subsidies were left untouched.

Outlook: Expect more fallout from gutted programs as cheap prevention work that was cut turns into far costlier problems.