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I mean, there probably is: you can't have trillions of dollars moving through that many hands without something shady happening.
But like, DOGE isn't going to find it. They can't. They're operating as if fraud means money just "vanished". Like they're going to find some account is missing a billion dollars nobody can account for. That's not what fraud looks like at scale.
It'll be more like, contracts awarded (or not awarded) based on listening to businesses say things that they know not to be true, intentionally misrepresenting information and their positions to shape public spending. For example, convincing California to not build transit because you promise you can dig them tunnels, when you know full well you're never going to build them tunnels.
That's what fraud looks like, and there isn't a DB query for that.
Not saying he hasn't tried. "SELECT * FROM government WHERE fraud_flag = 'fraud';"
"Damn, didn't work"
"Maybe the flag is 'secret_fraud'..."
He tried that, and it didn't work. That's how he knows the government doesn't use SQL.
Of course, he probably just typed it into Google. Or asked his own shitty AI how to find fraud.