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Proof: DOGE caused government to pay $9.5B to federal workers not to work

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5b8be7b585fac8f6e039861c4e478904062c02982b76e5150eecfc6b0f799ac4

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-5b8be7b585fa.json prints 5b8be7b585fac8f6e039861c4e478904062c02982b76e5150eecfc6b0f799ac4. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
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3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

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