>> I honestly have not a single idea why there wasn't this type of department before monitoring and auditing everything.

You mean like the Government Accountability Office? [1] Or the dozens of Inspector Generals at most agencies? [2]

[1] https://www.gao.gov/

[2] https://www.oversight.gov/where-report-fraud-waste-abuse-or-...

The US federal government has lots of laws, agencies, and procedures to address, investigate, and remediate fraud, waste, and abuse.

It's like people think every agency just got infinite money until Musk came in.

And they have been doing a bang up job. Bottom line is that this sort of transparency was needed in the last administration.

Chump

Because then they would have found the fraud, and some very powerful people would be out of money....