Democrats on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations yesterday released a jaw-dropping report attempting to document the scope and scale of financial waste, personnel upheaval, and human suffering caused by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency and Elon Musk’s giddily uninformed strike force of Peter Thiel acolytes.

Have efforts to cut government waste resulted in more spending? In the case of the deferred resignation, a new report indicates that more than 150,000 federal employees have been getting paid not to work this year.