If federal agencies were held to the same standards as U.S. corporations, heads would be rolling by now. And if those agencies were subjected to the same legal contortions that New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg used to indict and convict President Donald Trump, some government employees would likely now be behind bars. This is especially true of the Department of Government Efficiency‘s bombshell that $4.7 trillion in Treasury Department payments lacked proper tracking codes, rendering them nearly impossible to trace.

In their worst nightmares, Democrats surely could not have imagined the speed and scope of Trump’s first month of activity. However, the Trump administration’s relentless audit of the deep state — Democratic lawmakers and the vast network of unelected government bureaucrats who do their bidding — shows no signs of slowing.

Just one month into its work, Elon Musk’s DOGE team has already uncovered a startling degree of waste, fraud, and abuse within federal agencies. From DOGE’s initial revelation that the U.S. Agency for International Development operated as a global slush fund for progressive causes to its jaw-dropping discovery that 25 million individuals over age 100 remain in the Social Security database — despite there being fewer than 100,000 centenarians alive in the U.S. today — taxpayers have been alarmed by what DOGE has found.