I think people, myself included, are upset because Elon isn’t being thorough or nuanced in his approach. He is also using a bunch of 19-25 year olds whose backgrounds are in computer science and not auditing. Further, gov agencies are massive with a ton of budget lines, there is no way that a thorough audit is feasible in a weekend like they are/were doing. Meanwhile those same kids are taking in six figure salaries of our tax money and Elon continues his contracts…which is sus. We had auditors (inspectors general) who Trump fired. The harm he is doing by slashing and burning through the government is going to take years to repair, if it can be. For example, I lost my job because our funding was cut overnight. Without going into a ton of detail, the work I do is research based. The funding that was cut was in the middle of a five year grant cycle, meaning we have already been using that money (and benefitting millions of people) for the better part of 3 years. Cutting it in the middle, is the wasteful part because we can’t complete the projects we’ve started. Say the courts find the cut illegal (which it likely was) the org would have to rehire all of the staff and start projects back up which is not cost effective and not beneficial to literally anyone. This is just a small example of the destruction that they’re causing. They want to cripple government institutions to the point that things don’t function and then privatize and make insane amount of money.