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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mamot.fr/users/pluralistic/statuses/113697050528745255">Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 23:55:14 JST</a><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" title="pluralistic@mamot.fr"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/1478-48-20250110225240.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Cory Doctorow" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Cory Doctorow</a></section><article><p>A real DOGE: Fire every McKinsey consultant in the federal government</p><p>by <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/MattStoller" rel="tag">#MattStoller</a> <br><a href="https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cutting-government-is-easy-if-you" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cutting-government-is-easy-if-you</a></p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/doge" rel="tag">#doge</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/corruption" rel="tag">#corruption</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/mckinsey" rel="tag">#mckinsey</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4236360#notice-8279435">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-12-22T23:55:14+09:00" title="Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 23:55:14 JST">about a month ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113697050528745255" rel="external" title="Sent from mamot.fr via ActivityPub">mamot.fr</a></span></span><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113697050528745255">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3753977">Why take on management consultants? Well, for starters, the government spends far too much on people giving it advice. In it's 2024 budget, the Biden administration requested $70 billion for management consulting, aka “professional services,” which is 5% of all discretionary spending. The Defense Department alone asked for $32.9 billion. So just cutting all management consulting would be a big chunk of savings.But it goes beyond just the raw spend on consultants, to how consultants misdirect other monies. An important study in 2023 on what it costs to resurface roads at a state level - a very simply and standard need everywhere - showed why procurement waste in America is so persistent. A key reason is consultant bloat. It turns out, when you hire government employees for long-term planning, costs go down, but when you use third party consultants, they go up.</a></label><br><a href="https://static.mamot.fr/media_attachments/files/113/697/040/938/238/417/original/fe0d3fe4ddc87a5d.png" rel="external">https://static.mamot.fr/media_attachments/files/113/697/040/938/238/417/original/fe0d3fe4ddc87a5d.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: substackcdn.com</div><h5><a href="https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cutting-government-is-easy-if-you#doge">Cutting Government Is Easy... If You Go After McKinsey</a></h5><div> from <span>Matt Stoller</span></div></header><div>Elon Musk engineered a panic over government spending, thwarting major PBM reform and bans on junk fees. But cutting government spending is easy, if you take on power. And therein lies the rub.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 23:55:14 JST Cory Doctorow
A real DOGE: Fire every McKinsey consultant in the federal government
by #MattStoller
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cutting-government-is-easy-if-you
#doge #corruption #mckinsey
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1. Why take on management consultants? Well, for starters, the government spends far too much on people giving it advice. In it's 2024 budget, the Biden administration requested $70 billion for management consulting, aka “professional services,” which is 5% of all discretionary spending. The Defense Department alone asked for $32.9 billion. So just cutting all management consulting would be a big chunk of savings. But it goes beyond just the raw spend on consultants, to how consultants misdirect other monies. An important study in 2023 on what it costs to resurface roads at a state level - a very simply and standard need everywhere - showed why procurement waste in America is so persistent. A key reason is consultant bloat. It turns out, when you hire government employees for long-term planning, costs go down, but when you use third party consultants, they go up.
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  Cutting Government Is Easy... If You Go After McKinsey
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  Elon Musk engineered a panic over government spending, thwarting major PBM reform and bans on junk fees. But cutting government spending is easy, if you take on power. And therein lies the rub.

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