These days you can read a lot on DOGE in the US. Without wanting to start a flamewar on the approach and controversies, I can say it sparked my interest in government data analysis. In a rush of mojo on a Sunday morning, I used Copilot to hack together a POC to display various German data sources on government spending in a web ui with some filters. For such things LLMs are a great bootstrapping tool.
Later, with the help of Copilot I managed to extend it with a fancy UI, bar chart, more filters and, most importantly, more data sources. The latter now include also domestic expenses going to governmental and non-governmental institutions. Also, the tool now is less resource hungry.
You can find some pretty funny data in there! Check it out: https://jakobbr.eu/followthemoney
Github source: https://github.com/jbreu/follow_the_money