> The list of absurd spending makes me super angry; I never voted for climate change grants for Sri Lanka, or funding operas in Columbia or research in to Vietnamese bathhouses, or supplying birth control to the Taliban

I suggest you save your anger for real problems you actually understand. It will save you a lot of stress.

All of the “absurd” spending DOGE cites may seem like a lot of money, but it’s a tiny amount in comparison to the overall budget, and remarkably skewed toward specific, hot button issues like climate change, DEI, etc. Where are the cuts to the $852B military budget, which has been shown for decades as being insanely wasteful? Why isn’t DOGE investigating ways to cut down our $952B in interest payments due in 2025?