This is the strangest take I've ever seen. Surely you're not seriously worried about an auditing department? DOGE cannot do anything without Trump's approval.
Auditing is fine.
Now the worry is we have people in there who check with Trump multiple times before doing anything.
Trump can soothe their worries with written orders and promises of pardons.
He says he backs their efforts in public.
He could switch to verbal orders.
Order them to do nefarious things.
Delay payments.
Make payment errors that take time and effort to fix, but keep happening to a certain kind of people.
Leak confidential info to news organizations.
Then one day, Trump can say he never told them to do any of it.
Deny pardons, fire them, hang the naive college kids out to dry.
What friends would they have?
Trump would be fine and his enemies would still suffer.