As someone who manages some grant-funded projects that have been paused due to being funded under Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, there is definitely a lot of waste, fraud, and abuse going on.
Waste - Construction projects have been put on hold. It costs money daily to keep equipment on-site, and if you send them home, it costs tens of thousands of dollars to mobilize back out. I'm certain that some projects are being cancelled altogether, costing millions of dollars for zero benefit.
Fraud - The government signed contracts agreeing to pay for a portion of these projects, and some are being cancelled outright, mid-project. That is fraudulent, just like it would be fraudulent for me to take the money and then not work on the project as described in the agreement.
Abuse - None of this shit is authorized by Congress or law. DOGE can't even tell us who is in charge of it, and they are overriding the people who actually are in place to monitor and evaluate Federal employees to fire them based on emails their AI is reviewing.
I think the Sesame Street in Egypt grant is ridiculous just like everyone else does, but there is still someone, probably an American citizen, on the other side of that agreement who in good faith signed a contract from the United States to purchase all the equipment, hire the film crew, relocate to Egypt, and produce that show. There is nothing fraudulent about any of that.