In the wake of Kamala Harris’ defeat, Democrats are demanding an audit of the campaign. Influential party members are simply shocked the Harris campaign raised more than one billion dollars and still lost. Big donors are enraged by payouts to celebrities and gambits like advertising on the Las Vegas Sphere.

They can certainly be angry—but they shouldn’t be surprised. Taxpayer dollars are routinely squandered by the federal government. Millions have gone to study how hamsters fight, billions are paid each year to maintain unused buildings—and federal agencies have wasted nearly 785 billion dollars on overpayments in the last five years.

Yet you can expect Democrats to squeal when Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and the Department of Government Efficiency get to work.

The misuse of other people’s money only seems to matter when it prevents Democrats from getting—and holding—power.