While many programs targeted by DOGE and its master, Elon Musk, will be in the slash and burn crosshairs for the first time, one has been under assault for more than 40 years.

Caroll Spinney, who gave Big Bird his warmth and Oscar the Grouch his growl for nearly 50 years on “Sesame Street,” died Sunday at the age of 85 at his home in Connecticut, according to the ...