The federal government is very good at creating acronyms. However, what the federal government is terrible at doing is accounting for the money it spends.

Despite spending nearly $2 billion on government-spending watchdog alphabet agencies, such as the OIG, or Office of the Inspector General, and GAO, or the Government Accountability Office, it took President Donald Trump’s creation of an independent nonaligned auditor called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to identify wasteful and possibly corrupt federal expenditures. It is headed by the technical and business genius Elon Musk.