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I will be interested to hear what percentage of the civil servants are legends and ghosts for laundering money. It might be quite substantial.

It might be hard to tell, because the work product of the typical civil servant in Washington is likely pathetic to begin with.

Ceffer says

I will be interested to hear what percentage of the civil servants are legends and ghosts for laundering money. It might be quite substantial.

It might be hard to tell, because the work product of the typical civil servant in Washington is likely pathetic to begin with.

II remember learning from a Defense Acquisition University course that about 8% of the funding for major projects or acquisitions like a Navy submarine program is for the Washington DC metro area such as the program management office, support contractors to the program management office, etc.

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There is a lot of legal disruption that Trump admin can enact to slow the wasteful discretional spending in the agencies and departments like EPA, USAID and Department of Education in 2025.

They already cancelled some contracts and grants, and they can stop the award of new contracts like at Department of Education, Health and Human Services, etc.

One example: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doge-epa-team-up-claw-back-67m-biden-era-environmental-justice-grants

I look forward to around to learning around January 2026 how much the deficit was for Fiscal Year 2026 (1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025), and how at least it is no more than Biden's Fiscal Year 2024 deficit ($1.9 trillion).

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chirp!