“As people are shocked at the USAID spending scandal unfolding, I would posit the USAID silo was chosen first for DOGE exploration specifically because the subsequent outrage would gain the highest amount of public support for the pending solution. It’s the pending solution to the crisis that we should be very focused on.”

Who else has been pounding the table on this very question?
YUP.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/02/07/the-baseline-premise-surfaces-doge-downloads-govt-data-to-evaluate-efficiency/