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...Forest services under forestry is under USDA, so that's tens of thousands of firefighters as an example. And, of course, all of the farming and agriculture related from rural development loans to farm loans to crop insurance, and then and then, of co
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...actually remove services that are no longer statutory and they're no longer valuable to the American people. So that's the exercise we've started. That's the exercise that we're kind of is ongoing right now. But the purpose of that will be not only t
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One of them, I think, speaks to a core dysfunction that you see across government, which is we do everything in this very, very bespoke way. So it used to be over 5,000 different back end systems, including accounting systems just within the DoD. I d
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And so, whereas the private market today can tap a card, their expense report is done for them, their books are kept for them, the result is that you have an incredible amount of waste of people's time, of really hardworking people, and in some cases
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But it's not that way. The typical way that government buys is to pay sticker price and to not have discounts. And so you see not only are different agencies paying very different prices for the same sets of goods, but you don't see normal common sen
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Their approach is grounded in experience, follow through, and trust built over time. Bad days happen. And when they do, you deserve an insurance partner who understands risk, respects what you've built, and is ready to help you move forward. The Cinc
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And then we have the FOIA laws, which allow you to, as a citizen or as a journalist, you'll make a request Freedom of information act. This is to have a functioning democracy. What you're talking about here, Freiburg, is people who work for us should
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...republic into, you know, as we know, the the world's greatest economic superpower, certainly, you needed some kind of of governing structure. And so Abraham Lincoln in the eighteen sixties, believed sincerely that the, you know, the majority of Ameri
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It doesn't sound like, to me, when you described the BLS in 2019 through 2023, that this was an agency that was just, you know, larded up and had plenty of, plenty of, fat that can be trimmed off. No fat. Not bad at all. But, you know, this is the ag
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all the headlines when it came to government employment were, you know, layoffs, mass firing, streamlining. What's what's that like for you now? Is it easy to get people in the door? Well, look. There are there are to the extent, there are areas wher
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DOE is if you look at it, DOE has the lowest staffing level of any agency, but the fourth highest appropriation and it administers the more than $1,000,000,000,000, higher ed. It is in overhead terms, one of the leanest of all the agencies alongside
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This is a controversy that's been around for some time, but it's actually being pried in the courts right now. There's, I think, four active cases. So the Federal Records Act was originally passed in 1950, and then there was this amendment related to
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To me, the wealth gap the biggest problem of the wealth gap, which is a big social problem, is also the productivity gap. And you have to make most people productive. And you have to do that through infrastructure and so on. And I don't think I think
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It goes to Treasury ultimately, but it was supposed to flow through the way it was supposed to work in the it was changed in the '70 in the seventies, in 1973. The Nixon administration at in '71, let me go back, they came off the gold standard, which
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...services are coming. That's right. That's right. They're reporting. They're not. I keep saying it's the Department of Government Efficiency, not government extinction, not government elimination and can we make it run much better with fewer people wi
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Elon, Trump, they wanted to, you know, downsize the 3,000,000 people who are federal employees. This is just federal employees we're talking about. We're not talking about military, and we're not talking about state and city. That's tens of millions
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