Posted on 03/27/2025 7:57:33 AM PDT by Red Badger
In huge news for those wanting to see DOGE take an axe to the various forms of federal spending-enabled fraud engaged in by the sorts of Swamp businesses that are much despised by normal Americans, DOGE has announced that it is turning its sights on the sort of contractors and consultants who have leeched billions of dollars out of federal spending programs.
Amongst those financial leeches who will be hardest hit by the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in its efficiency push are those consulting firms that have taken in billions of taxpayer dollars without justifying why they are collecting so much from the federal government.
Such is what Fox Business’s Hillary Vaughn explained in an epic segment on March 24, during which the cable channel commented on how federal consultants are scrambling to keep the checks coming as DOGE digs into their extravagant waste. Beginning, Vaughn said, “DOGE is turning its attention to massive government contracts, and consulting firms are scrambling to justify their funding”
Continuing, Vaughn noted that that the firms involved are going to have to grade themselves on how well they are utilizing the taxpayer dollars they receive, something sure to result in many infuriating, if also hilarious, disclosures about the ways in which the Swamp Creatures are wasting taxpayer dollars. She said, “Firms have just a week to write their own report card, the General Services Administration sending a letter to top consulting firms, telling them to grade themselves on how exactly they are spending billions in taxpayer cash.”
Building on that, Vaughn explained that the report card form sent out by the General Services Administration (GSA) will require that they breakdown their spending by project, showing DOGE is getting into the nitty gritty in an attempt to expose their waste and fraud. She said, “The letter saying they need to quote, identify each related contract and project and further breakdown spending by functional category”
Vaughn then referenced a recent interview in which Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, explained how wasteful contractors and consultants have been like boa constrictors in the way they squeeze federal agencies, such as the IRS. She said, “Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said the chokehold these consulting firms have on government spending has shocked him the most since he moved to DC and started opening up the books.”
Further referencing that boa constrictor metaphor, the segment then cut to Secretary Bessent, who explained that the “entrenched interests” inside the Beltway, such as the aforementioned consulting firms, keep squeezing money out of the government. He said, “One of the biggest surprises for me is just seeing how these entrenched interests, they just keep constricting themselves around the power, around the money, around the systems, and nobody cares.”
Concluding, Vaugh explained how a major issue DOGE has exposed regarding federal spending is that contracts issued to the consultants are based on the time spent by them on a project, not how well they complete it, something that encourages more time to be spent on it, and thus more spending. She said, “The problem is systemic. DOGE saying that these consulting groups write contracts so that they are paid for time, not performance”
Watch Vaughn draw attention to what DOGE has exposed regarding those wasteful contractors here:
VIDEO AT LINK.................
Some of the Beltway Bandits are in for a rocky ride.
BTTT
The same thing happens in corporate America with the big consulting firms.
Lol, yeah, those contracts are called “IDIQ” which has become the bid of choice for contractors making it easier for contracting people but are the most expensive. Whatever can possibly be justified as IDIQ is made that way, regardless of the task or deliverable. The contractors know where the money is—time and loads of attached contract personnel. Unnecessary federal employees are a relative drop in the bucket.
Political debris humor??
Maxine Waters Parody: Hilarious ‘Jolene’ Remix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QhJZmHzP6A
Comments below the video:
“She belongs in prison!”
“DOGE needs to investigate her.”
“Come to office penniless and leave multi millionaires, all on less than 200.000 per annum. Criminals should be jailed.”
JASMINE CROCKETT Song - PARODY of “Ballad of Davy Crockett” :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lTTl2L_UNI
How did this POS get elected? Calling for an investigation.
Comments:
“She makes AOC look intelligent!”
I hope, if they get caught lying on their “report card” criminal charges are brought.
Once they get rid of these leeches they need to turn to professional lobbyists writing legislation.
Trump is losing the war again like last time due to the swamp. Needs another new tactic:
Investigate the connection between grants and pork contracts and put those govt officials in lawfare/jail.
Begin individually firing govt employees for substandard or improper behavior. Give these judges 5 million lawsuits to contend with rather than twenty.
McKinsey, BCG, DeLoitte, Accenture,et al should be worried.
>>contracts issued to the consultants are based on the time spent by them on a project, not how well they complete it, something that encourages more time to be spent on it, and thus more spending.<<
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Ah, the old “Lawyer’s Scam” never fails!
All relatives, no doubt, of sitting congress critters, judges and other useless government employees.
The US government needs 5 Tools To Help You Cancel Unwanted Subscriptions ,LOL
bttt
When I read this I thought WTF, self grading? Then I thought brilliant! Do to laws, this could be used if fraud was discovered by others. “Oops guess we forgot to disclose that one…..”. Here’s your jail cell 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Consultants should have submit a pre-contract time assessment for a project, and allowed whatever information they need to collect to make that assessment. Then their contract should be for their fixed price based on that assessment. If the contract is accepted then that fixed price is all they should be paid, and if it takes longer than they figured it would take, they eat the cost of that additional time themselves.
HOWVER payment for that fixed priced contract should not be made based on “time spent” but on benchmarks established for the project in the beginning. Payment should be made only in some portion agreed on for each benchmark, but final payment not made until the project is SUCCESSFULLY concluded. That “success” must be as stated objectives agreed to at the start of the contract. The consultant could keep working for nothing until that final success, if all prior benchmarks and benchmark payments had been met. Altogether under no circumstances should the consultant be paid more than the fixed price agreed to at the start.
There are some companies who have solved this problem, though on the face of it it may not seem so.
The fixed price agreements they have made is for some IT business consulting outfit (like a branch of IBM, for example) to replace the company’s entire IT department(s) and over the course of an agreed on time, modernize and maintain all their systems, with certain stated goals and objectives agreed to from the start. One price and no more IT personnel of their own (and all their employee benefits).
booz hamilton
My experience working as a contractor for the Feds is that we were at least 30% cheaper than our civil service replacements. So be careful what you wish for.
The answer is to cut civil service positions, which will require Trump to get his budget this summer. I am hopeful but not optimistic that he will succeed; too many squishy Repubs.
Good.
Being’s Starliner contract is fixed price. They have exceeded the contracted amount so far by nearly $2 billion.
If the government made an open ended contract then it was not really a “fixed price” contract.
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