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Just don't accuse government workers of being either incompetent or in on the grift. If you were an internal auditor at the VA you could hardly miss this. An annual $4 million contract with approvals of the documented contract with a statement from a senior IT manager reciting the need for the contract and if sole sourced the need to go outside the RFP bidding procedure along with a statement of qualifications of the vendor would have been subject to review. Most likely the vendor is connected to some powerful dem who benefits from kickbacks or employment of friends and family. Anyone familiar with private sector procurement would know this is rife with fraud and waste. Yet the left howls about DOGE uncovering this sh*t and then doing something about it. The noble government employee indeed.https://ace.mu.nu/
DOGE Discovers That the VA Was Paying $350,000-$380,000 Per Month For Minor Tweaks to Its Website
—Ace
This was almost certainly a payoff. I don't know many website managers who charge $350,000-$380,000 per month to give the hamsters a kick.
The contract has now been cancelled.
DOGE finds Veterans Affairs paying $350K per month for website modifications
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), under the leadership of Elon Musk, revealed the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) had been spending an astounding $350,000--$380,000 per month on minor website updates before canceling the bloated contract.
Key Details:
The VA paid a contractor nearly $380,000/month for minor website modifications.
DOGE confirmed the contract was not renewed; the work is now done by one internal staffer in 10 hours/week.
The revelation follows DOGE's termination of 113 federal contracts worth $4.7 billion in total.
Diving Deeper:
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the agency created by executive order on President Donald Trump's first day in office, has uncovered yet another striking example of wasteful federal spending. This time, the target is the Department of Veterans Affairs, which until recently had been paying nearly $380,000 a month for relatively simple website modifications--work that a single staffer now handles internally with just 10 hours of effort each week.
DOGE broke the story via a post on X, formerly Twitter, praising the VA for not renewing the contract. "VA was previously paying ~$380,000/month for minor website modifications," the agency wrote. "That contract has not been renewed, and the same work is now being executed by 1 internal VA software engineer spending ~10 hours/week."
 
Good news for the Pennsylvania working man. Leftards will weep for Gaia. Just don't call it a religion.https://instapundit.com/

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More funding shortfalls for basic needs. Solution obviously is no review of spending and priorities just new taxes. For some reason dems are enamored with a mileage tax. The gasoline tax and vehicle registration fees are already in place and are easy and efficient to collect. Don't have money for the gas tax the easy solution is that you can't buy gas. No money for registration renewal, then no new vehicle tags. But a mileage tax? Whole new inefficient collection process. First have to stick a programed GPS unit in your vehicle to track mileage driven in Oregon. Have it report back to the Oregon Department of Revenue (Monthly? Annually?) on miles driven in Oregon and a bill is then sent out for hundreds of dollars. A large percentage of car owners will be delinquent and then the enforcement mechanism starts with a collection process. Plus there are obvious privacy issues. Of course, dems dropped privacy as a valid citizen concern a long time ago. Your GPS stops reporting and then what? You are fined and then required to replace it. No collection from people driving through Oregon. This comes down to getting EV owners to pay for their share of the roads. Just stick an average registration fee surcharge for EVs to replace the gas tax and problem solved.
I especially liked that that the legislature can't come up with any "shiny new projects" to make the deal palatable to voters. Like what shiny new project has the Oregon Department of Transportation come up with in the last decades. I-205 was completed in the 1970s and no new bridges have been built over the Willamette or Columbia since the Fremont Bridge in 1973 and the I-205 Bridge in 1982.

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Too bad the Houthis couldn't get to a dem District Court judge and get a court injunction that the Houthis had to have a due process hearing in Washington DC before Trump could blow them up. I hear AOG is in tears.
 
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