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I started out with a similar position, but so far everything I've heard out of DOGE is either:

1. Misrepresenting congressionally approved expenditures he royally disapproves of as "fraud"

2. Misleading, under-researched, unsupported statistics as "waste"

The longer this goes on, the more impressed I am with our government. I had no idea it would be this hard to find anything legitimate to attack.

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> 1. Misrepresenting congressionally approved expenditures he royally disapproves of as "fraud"

This seems dubious to me. In almost all congressional expenditures the funds allocated are done so at a department level with broad statutes applied. It is largely left up to that department to decide what to actually do with those funds specifically. It seems like a stretch to characterize this as "congressionally approved" and more like an abdication by congress on large swaths of government spending.

There is of course a feedback loop here. It's not like they get a check and no one ever looks to see what it was spent on. Congress has multiple levels of oversight over these agencies, including several congressional Committees (House and Senate), inspectors general, and whistleblowers. This oversight serves to minimize fraud, waste, and abuse.

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