Washington Post: DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite

Washington Post ^ | 06/02/2025 | Hannah Natanson

[SeekAndFind]

New procedures and requirements — some implemented in the name of improving operations — are slowing down federal agencies.

Somewhere in the world last month, a State Department employee began the routine process of hiring a vendor for an upcoming embassy event — but quickly ran into a problem.

The vendor was refusing to sign paperwork certifying that it did not promote diversity, equity and inclusion, or “DEI,” a new requirement under President Donald Trump’s executive order eradicating DEI from the government. The State employee — who spoke on the condition that neither he nor the location of his embassy be named, for fear of retaliation — sighed.

Then he got busy: The work-around, he knew, would take time. First, he got his ambassador’s signed approval to hire the vendor anyway. Next, he filled out an Office 365 form justifying the expense in 250 words before selecting which “pillar” of necessary spending it fell under, choosing from options including “Safer, Stronger, More Prosperous.” After submitting that to higher-ups and getting their sign-off, he filled out yet another form — this one destined for political appointees back in Washington.

A week later, the vendor was secured. Under any previous administration, it would have taken one day, the employee said.

Similar layers of new red tape are plaguing federal staffers throughout the government under the second Trump administration, stymieing work and delaying simple transactions, according to interviews with more than three dozen federal workers across 19 agencies and records obtained by The Washington Post. Many of the new hurdles, federal workers said, stem from changes imposed by the U.S. DOGE Service, Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team, which burst into government promising to eradicate waste, fraud and abuse and trim staff and spending.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Crazy Hannah from WaPo. What does she know?

[Sacajaweau]

WAPO....say no more...

[chajin]

Tyranny is always efficient. Supporting natural rights takes time.

Also, if the vendor doesn’t like the deal, [insert pronoun] can always say no.

[Leaning Right]

In related news, here’s tomorrow’s Washington Post headline:

“Everything Trump Does is Wrong”

[ronnie raygun]

Fake news never died it just reinvented itself

[johniegrad]

Somewhere in the world last month, a State Department employee began the routine process of hiring a vendor for an upcoming embassy event — but quickly ran into a problem. The vendor was refusing to sign paperwork certifying that it did not promote diversity, equity and inclusion, or “DEI,” a new requirement under President Donald Trump’s executive order eradicating DEI from the government. The State employee — who spoke on the condition that neither he nor the location of his embassy be named, for fear of retaliation — sighed.

Since nothing can be sourced or identified and since the article is published in a known instrument of lies, this is nothing more than what the author wishes would happen.

[Raycpa]

I’m glad it takes a lot of effort to get an event approved which is probably a waste of time and money as well as difficult to bypass the president orders, if DOGE were more effective this event would never happen and employee would be fired.

[Bookshelf]

This article, with employees making up their own rules, justifies the continuing purge of the State Department.

[MortMan]

The author found an instance of how skirting the rules takes more time and blames DOGE.

[kiryandil]

Also by Hannah, who majored in Lying at college:

“Trump orders the government to stop enforcing rules he doesn’t like”

[AndyJackson]

Cuttiny payroll and useless activities doesn’t increase efficiency? Efficiency = useful work out/energy in. If you keep the useful work out, however little that might be, constant and decrease the energy going in efficiency increases. It’s simple mathematics.

[kiryandil]

Also by Hannah:

“Trump orders the government to stop enforcing rules he doesn’t like”

We apparently live in a separate reality.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“The vendor was refusing to sign paperwork certifying that it did not promote diversity, equity and inclusion, or “DEI,” a new requirement under President Donald Trump’s executive order eradicating DEI from the government.”

If the employee put that into the RFP at the beginning, He wouldn’t have had to do all of that. And, if the employee went through this headache, did he write up a new process that could be shared throughout the agency?

[From The Deer Stand]

1. Explain why Democrats oppose cutting waste and fraud in the federal government. We can guess why.

2. Explain why Democrats and Republicans in Congress have ignored the waste and fraud for decades and now fail to pass laws to control it.

[AndyJackson]

DEI cert/decert of vendors has nothing to do with DOGE.

[AndyJackson]

The vendor was refusing to sign paperwork certifying that it did not promote diversity, equity and inclusion

Well there you go. It's not DOGE that's the problem. It's the vendor.

[Hyman Roth]

Democrats bitch and moan but they don’t come up with a solution. 🤔

[econjack]

...a State Department employee began the routine process of hiring a vendor for an upcoming embassy event — but quickly ran into a problem. The vendor was refusing to sign paperwork certifying that it did not promote diversity, equity and inclusion, or “DEI,” a new requirement under President Donald Trump’s executive order eradicating DEI from the government.

Is turning away a vendor who disagrees with Trump's no-DEI policy a problem? Grab a cat, swing it in a big loop over your head, and I'll bet you hit a half-dozen other vendors who would love to get the contract. Indeed, perhaps the embassy doesn't need another party in the first place.

[JesusIsLord]

We are $37 Trillion in debt and it continues to grown. Our government, democrat and republican, has been and continues to be feckless and corrupt. We have been asking the fox to guard the hen house. The fox is in the egg and chicken stealing business - not the egg and chicken protection business. We need to shoot the fox.