The Big Government Contracts Doge Hasn't Touched

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Anil Dash - understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anildash.com&#x2F;&#x2F;2025&#x2F;01&#x2F;04&#x2F;DOGE-procurement-capture&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anildash.com&#x2F;&#x2F;2025&#x2F;01&#x2F;04&#x2F;DOGE-procurement-captur...</a>

Medicare fraud is <i>conservatively</i> in the $16 billion+ per year range[1] and a lot of it is easily detectable with data the government already has.<p>Two things about this type of fraud though:<p>1. Detection would require making USG a better place to work for technically savvy people, with things like &quot;budgets&quot; and &quot;not getting publicly humiliated by the world&#x27;s richest man&quot;<p>2. It&#x27;s committed by men in suits, so enforcement would require going after the types of people that in reality, Trump &amp; co prefer to pardon... for committing exactly this type of fraud [2]...<p>So, cutting life-saving aid, cancer research, and healthcare benefits it is!<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;health&#x2F;healthcare&#x2F;how-health-insurers-racked-up-billions-in-extra-payments-from-medicare-advantage-9d4c8a89" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;health&#x2F;healthcare&#x2F;how-health-insurers-ra...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;politics-news&#x2F;health-care-fraudster-philip-esformes-latest-trump-clemency-recipient-rcna175681" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;politics-news&#x2F;health-care-f...</a>

People, including the MSM apparently, continue to act as if this is about efficiency and waste. It&#x27;s clearly not; it&#x27;s about blowing up agencies and programs that Trump, Musk, and the P2025 gang don&#x27;t like. And ensuring a further erosion of rights for most of us, with that power (and money) further consolidating into the bank accounts of a select few.

From the article: &gt; “I don’t think the large defense contractors will be immune from cuts and contract terminations for long,” said Todd Harrison, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, who noted that the sensitive nature of some defense contract details may require a different approach to cuts. “The defense industry is bracing for budget cuts.”<p>I mean... what point are they actually trying to make? The government has cut big defense spending contracts yet, and that&#x27;s bad, but they&#x27;re planning on it soon, so we have to complain now before we miss our window?

Doesn&#x27;t this also include &quot;military aid&quot; that we give to countries like Israel?

Fix the Sentinel program. Every single cut DOGE has enacted to date would be swamped tenfold by just figuring out how to un-fuck the Sentinel program. And frankly unlike all the other shit, that would actually plausibly be within Elon&#x27;s true wheelhouse.