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The Office of Personnel Management (~2500 employees) budgeted $370M for IT spending in FY2025. They believe this value can be reduced by ~80% while maintaining equivalent levels of service. Initial reductions include:


-$1.9M for studies on quantum cryptography and quantum response readiness

- $1.5M for support on a "large number of OPM-wide AI proof-of-concepts and pilots"

- $364k for 1,000 unused cybersecurity software licenses

-$121k in unused Zoom licenses




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Updated data on DEI related contract cancellations (separate from grants) by agency:



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DOGE has canceled a $215 million contract for a Texas nonprofit which operated a housing facility for illegal immigrants.

The facility had been sitting empty for months. An administrator of the "nonprofit" was a Biden-era ICE official.
 
B. Hussein Obama advisor Phillip Green received a $45.1 million dollar contract to help with "Ukraine reconstruction."




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Examples of observed improper payments below. This is likely being done at scale.

- After an order for expedited deportation was issued in 2017, a migrant from Honduras used three different SSNs to submit 73 Medicare claims totaling $48k.

- Medicare paid $49k for a Rehab Center for a person recorded dead for over a year.

- Medicare paid $57k in 2020 for a person recorded to have died in 2006.

- After a warrant for her arrest was issued in 2019, a migrant from Colombia received 3 SBA loans for $100k (over $99k was forgiven).

- Migrant from Peru received Social Security payments since at least 2007, with all benefit checks being mailed directly to Peru.


GAO report estimates $233B - $521B annually in fraud.


https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-24-105833.pdf :readit:



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