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   AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 09-Jun-2025 09:21:53 JST AkaSci 🛰️

   A former employee of the Dept 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 at the Dept of Veterans Affairs.

   "Elon [Musk] was pretty clear about how he wanted DOGE to be maximally transparent. And so I thought, OK, cool, I'll take him at his word. I will be transparent."

   Shortly after the interview was published, his access was revoked.

   https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-5417994/former-doge-engineer-shares-his-experience-working-for-the-cost-cutting-unit
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     AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 09-Jun-2025 09:21:53 JST AkaSci 🛰️

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     Former DOGE engineer Sahil Lavingia:

     "The government has been under sort of a magnifying glass for decades. And so I think, generally, I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the govt. was. This isn't to say that it can't be made more efficient — elimination of paper, elimination of faxing — but these aren't necessarily fraud, waste and abuse. These are just rooms to modernize and improve the U.S. federal govt. into the 21st century."

     https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-5417994/former-doge-engineer-shares-his-experience-working-for-the-cost-cutting-unit
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