Let there be light: The biblical truth driving DOGE's war on waste

Let there be light: The biblical truth driving DOGE’s war on waste


Nothing in the second Trump administration has divided Washington more sharply than the Department of Government Efficiency, headed by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk. The frenetic effort has featured foibles, but it has also uncovered shocking wastes of taxpayer dollars — discoveries that may have earned the DOGE more detractors than its faults. Whatever the final results may be, it’s worthwhile for Christians to consider a driving impulse behind the DOGE’s work that is deeply consistent with biblical values.

This is the DOGE’s impulse to push for transparency — or, perhaps more precisely, illumination — about government spending and processes. “In a Fox interview, Musk and his team … shined a greater light on the amount of inefficiency and financial waste that’s propagated by our

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