A large majority of U.S. voters say the federal government is “filled with waste,” should cut spending and needs an agency to ensure its “efficiency,” results of a new Harris survey reveal.

While Democrats in Congress fiercely denounce the efforts of the new Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) created by President Donald Trump, the nation’s registered voters strongly support DOGE’s work, according to the Harris/HarrisX/Harvard CAPS survey, conducted February 19-20.

Strikingly, two-thirds (64%) of registered Democrats say their party should blindly “oppose everything that Trump is doing” (emphasis added), while 66% of all voters think Congressional Democrats should “take more of a wait and see attitude towards his actions.”

This suggests support for Trump’s efforts to eliminate government waste and cut spending would be even higher – if not for those respondents who based their answers on unreasoning bias, instead of on the details and effectiveness of his work.

Likewise, a 57% majority of Democrat voters say their party should accept “government waste” – not “join in the mission of cutting” it.

Conversely, two-thirds (66%) of all U.S. registered voters say Democrats should help cut government waste by reducing expenditures.

Indeed, there is a general consensus among U.S. voters that government spending needs to be scrutinized and slashed:

Three-fourths of U.S. voters say there needs to be a government-wide examination of spending to root out waste – and think there needs to be an agency like Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to do it:

Additionally, a slight majority (52%) say DOGE should “have access to all information on government expenditures.”