What is being hidden? That’s a question that Americans have been asking themselves repeatedly as the unelected Elon Musk has bragged of his DOGE teams rummaging through and slashing government departments without much accountability and highly questionable authority.

The real killer: a Department of Government Efficiency post on X reported a total of $4.7 trillion worth of payments from the Treasury Department are “almost impossible” to trace because of missing account identification codes.

His tireless efforts to slow America’s shift to electricity-run transportation is a dream come true for China as it leads the world in that transition.

When negotiating, especially with an evil adversary — Nazi Germany then and Russia’s Vladimir Putin now — the worst strategy is to make concessions before talks formally begin. And to exclude Ukraine, the victim of the invasion, at least in initial talks, is like allowing an opponent in poker to have an extra ace.

If Europe won’t spend more for the sake of its own security or the good of the alliance, it should — when its embarrassing panic subsides — at least do it out of self-respect.