OPINION: Eliminating “waste, fraud and abuse” is a perennial goal of Beltway politicians, but rarely has someone seemed so serious about it as President Trump. His crusade with the Department of Government Efficiency is headed by free-thinking savant billionaire Elon Musk, who, in his first few weeks on the job, has taken an ax to wasteful government initiatives that press secretary Karoline Leavitt laid out in an already long list to the media.