DOGE, the incoming Trump administration advisory panel headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, has been posting about the federal government’s spending on X, the social media platform owned by Musk. The posts have featured a mix of facts and figures, including those drawn from a USA Facts chart and a Reader’s Digest article on “11 Bizarre Things the U.S. Government Actually Spent Money On.” Musk has spoken of trimming $2 trillion from the federal budget. The 2024 fiscal...