Waldo Jaquith18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.
18F is *precisely* what Musk and team claim should exist within government. But when his team found it, they destroyed it, because it is evidence that government works well (can’t have that!), and because like Zelensky, 18F didn’t bend the knee.
Trump and Musk are eliminating any part of government that works well, because that undermines their thesis that government doesn’t work.
GSA (which houses 18F) turns a profit as an agency. Naturally it has to be destroyed. 18F’s healthy revenue stream also means it must go.
Michael ☕️@waldo.net
Musk *had* to eliminate 18F so that he could get Trump to pay him to update and modernize the gov't tech infrastructure before Trump found out that a project doing that *already* *existed*.
Musk *had* to eliminate 18F so that he could get Trump to pay him to update and modernize the gov't tech infrastructure before Trump found out that a project doing that *already* *existed*.