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Right..this isn't warcraft..
I don't give a fuck about ya slow cousin
People need the drugs to deal with the inequalities of the nation. If you fix the economy by making it equitable, the demand for drugs decline. There’s a correlation between lowering the corporate tax rates and a rise in drug use.
Trump Administration Pushes Agencies to Cut Consulting Contracts
Mar 4
U.S. government consulting contracts, particularly those among some of the largest consulting companies in the world, are catching the eye of the Trump Administration in its bid to slash spending. And companies like Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte and Accenture, are among those with billions on the line.
In new guidance, the General Services Administration (GSA) ordered agencies to provide information on their contracts with the top ten firms. In a letter to agency procurement executives, acting GSA Administrator Stephen Ehikian said, “We have identified the 10 highest paid consulting firms listed below are set to receive over $65 billion in fees in 2025 and future years. This needs to, and must, change.”
The list is due by March 7, and agencies must include which contracts they want to ditch and which they plan to keep.
“For any contracts between these firms and your agency that will continue, please provide a signed statement from a senior official verifying that such contract is mission critical and provides substantive technical support,” wrote acting administrator Ehikian.
The ten companies GSA asked agencies to focus on are:
- Accenture Federal Services
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- CGI Federal
- Deloitte Consulting
- General Dynamics IT
- Guidehouse
- HII Mission Technologies
- IBM
- Leidos
- SAIC
Outside experts suggest that reducing government contracts is not necessarily a bad thing but warn that it must be done thoughtfully.
“While one could debate whether some of this work is necessary or nice to have, a lot more of a thoughtful approach is needed about work that if eliminated doesn’t lead to gaps in government understanding, decision making and ultimately delivery of services to people,” said an anonymous former GSA official to Federal News Network.
Big Spenders Moving Ahead
The Department of Defense, one of the biggest spenders on contracting, laid out plans for an analysis.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the agency to “conduct a comprehensive review and validation of existing contracts for consulting services” with the intent of “terminating or descoping contracts for activities that are not essential for the Department to fulfill its statutory purposes.”
According to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, federal agencies spent more than $500 billion on consulting related contracts from fiscal years (FY) 2019 through 2023, with DOD accounting for more than 46 percent of the total.
VA Contracts Questioned
Over at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the administration may have moved too swiftly and is now backtracking. The VA put the brakes on contract terminations and ordered additional reviews of the programs being cut.
The Washington Post reported that some of the 875 programs slashed helped veterans with medical services, funded cancer programs, recruited doctors, and provided burial services to veterans, according to internal VA documents.
VA Secretary Doug Collins initially said the cuts would save taxpayers about $2 billion.
Saving Money?
Despite all the attention, the contract cuts may not be saving much money for taxpayers.
Data published by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) finds that 794 out of 2,300 contracts terminated in recent weeks, or about 40%, are expected to yield no savings.
That’s typically because the total value of the contracts has already been fully obligated, meaning the government has a legal requirement to spend the funds for the goods or services it purchased and, in many cases, has already done so.
DOGE insists the canceled contracts will save nearly $10 billion, an amount questioned by independent experts.
You can track contracts terminated by DOGE at this link.
Mufucka sounds like a 3rd grader
Didn't AOC do a similar video..?
Those folks always mention minute, non-newsworthy topics to divert away from the clown show Project 2025 policies coming the White House. Honestly, I DGAF about the opinion of a MAGA bro Tiktoker and a Pro-White Nationalist Tweeter's opinion of U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett doing a head nod and slight dance to the song, "Not Like Us". None of those neanderthal MAGA turds are anything like us.
Didn't AOC do a similar video..?
There's a video of her dancing when she was in college, where she just looks hot, not silly like this.
The key difference is that was dug up when she was in college, not something she planned and released as a representative.
Am I the only one seeing some tweets and not others?
FACTS
Ole Remedial slobbering ass nigga you just did
