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To hear Democrats and their mainstream media allies tell it, the new Department of Government Efficiency is the stuff of nightmares

Leaders can say they’re going to cut government waste, but actually doing so? The audacity.

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Americans outside the Beltway are no doubt reeling as well, not because of DOGE’s cost-cutting scrutiny of government spending, but rather some of the egregious waste that’s been uncovered.

As FoxNews reported, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, the Senate DOGE Caucus Chairwoman, recently published a list of projects and programs she says the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has helped fund across the years.

Ernst highlighted that the agency “authorized a whopping $20 million to create a ‘Sesame Street’ in Iraq.”

Under the Biden administration, USAID awarded $20 million to a nonprofit called Sesame Workshop to produce a show called “Ahlan Simsim Iraq” in an effort to “promote inclusion, mutual respect and understanding across ethnic, religious and sectarian groups.”

The government funded another $1.5 million program aimed to “advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities.”

Your tax dollars at work.

The Pentagon doesn’t coming up smelling of roses, either.

A congressional inquiry in 2018 found the Air Force was spending $1,300 for each reheatable coffee cup aboard one of its aircraft. The Air Force spent $32,000 replacing 25 cups, according to Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.

A two-year audit by the Defense Department Inspector General last year found that Boeing overcharged the Air Force by 8,000% for soap dispensers. They overpaid by $149,072.

Does the Pentagon’s $850 billion budget need a dose of DOGE? You’d better believe it.

It’s not necessarily the wasteful spending reveals that are shocking Democrats, but the fact that something is being done about them.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said earlier this month that he thinks President Trump’s DOGE commission will find “awful examples” of wasteful government spending.

But, as The Hill reported, Khanna said it’s important the findings be brought to Congress, which is responsible for appropriating government funds, according to the U.S. Constitution.

Cutting government waste should be a no-brainer. Political leaders on both sides of the aisle should champion efficiency and careful management of the money taxpayers send to Washington.

The pols who are outraged that the gravy train is over are the ones who got a good ride.

— Boston Herald