DOGE news

Here's some items from the list of DOGE savings that I took right off their website:

• "The @USGSA IT team just saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 yr old technology for information storage) to permanent modern digital records."

• "VA was previously paying ~$380,000/month for minor website modifications. That contract has not been renewed and the same work is now being executed by 1 internal VA software engineer spending ~10 hours/week."

•  "$265K for Queens College in New York to research “why BIPOC teens” read Japanese comic books"

• "Since January 20th, @USGSA has been working to right size the federal real estate portfolio, which is liable for more than $20+ billion in deferred maintenance. So far, the team has sold 13 buildings and listed an additional 68 (8.3M square feet)."

The problem with government buildings has been known for a long time, and it's not disputed. Last week at a subcommittee hearing, the chairwoman said "Here in DC, GAO found in 2023 that the vast majority of federal agency headquarters buildings were less than 25% occupied—some much less."

It's not a partisan issue, and everybody should be able to support cleaning up our expensive and under-used properties.