[Terabitten]

The stuff that I saw coming out of DOGE screamed, “These people do not have basic supervisory skills” because the errors had to do with managing the controls (making sure stuff was done the ‘right’ way.)

Not to hijack the thread, but much of the stuff coming out of DOGE was complete garbage. I can tell you with 100% certainty that they frequently didn't understand what they were actually looking at, and then made exaggerated claims in the media about stuff they didn't understand. I really had hoped they would help, but they were too undisciplined to do any real good.

[Vermont Lt]

I never really bought into the dollar amounts they were tossing around. However, “dirty databases” cause lots of problems. I understand why a lot of those records were the way they were…but it seems there was a lot of clean up that should have been routine…that was not done routinely.

People often bitch about the systems. But it’s folks not working them the way they were designed that can cause issues.

Without clean information you can hardly make good decisions. And it seems no one was taking responsibility.