One of President-elect Donald Trump’s most popular ideas is his new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

Americans agree that waste in Washington is abundant: Polls show the average American thinks about 30 cents of every dollar spent by the federal government is wasted, redundant or counterproductive — and Trump is betting they’re right.  

The idea of saving up to $2 trillion to reduce our $36 trillion national debt and to rein in our near $2 trillion annual deficit has great and widespread appeal.

In Musk and Ramaswamy, Trump has chosen two of the nation’s great business minds to co-chair this Herculean task of rooting out and halting hundreds of billions of dollars of waste and fraud.

And typical of their creative, enthusiastic approach to the job, the two have asked Americans for ideas about how and where to find the waste.

In that spirit, for the last three weeks I’ve dedicated my WABC radio show to this massive effort.

I’ve asked our listeners nationwide to contribute their ideas for how the government can save our money — and the lines have been jam-packed.

Here are some of the best I’ve heard so far:

Common-sense Americans are coming up with these and hundreds more good ideas, and DOGE should follow their advice. 

After all, it’s our money that’s being wasted.

Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a co-founder of Unleash Prosperity.