A former employee of the Department of Government Efficiency says that he found that the federal waste, fraud and abuse that his agency was supposed to uncover were “relatively nonexistent” during his short time embedded within the Department of Veterans Affairs.
“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR’s Juana Summers.
Lavingia was a successful software developer and the founder of Gumroad, a platform for online sales, when he joined DOGE in March. Lavingia said he had previously sought to work for the U.S. Digital Service, the technology unit that was renamed and restructured by the Trump administration. He told NPR that he just wanted to make government websites easier for citizens to use and didn’t really care which presidential administration he was working for, despite protests from his friends and family.
“When those plates come crashing down they’re going to end up hiring IBM, VMware, General Dynamics, Microsoft, Red Hat, etc… consultants to fix the mess and get them back to spinning” That’s not a bug it’s a feature those contract will go to someone who “donated” to the Taco.
It’s just going to be all the same people that he cut contracts from. What they did was get a list of the companies they were spending the most with and started cutting contracts. They’re going to end up having to go back to those same companies. This time with desperation.