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1) I agree that it’d be a good idea to increase the federal workforce so we don’t rely on contractors so much.

2) Presumably not all of that was waste? Like screw consulting firms but presumably at least more-than-$0 of that is non-waste, and probably a fair amount of it.

3) Other sources make it clear some amount of the $65 billion is spread over multiple years (unclear exactly how it breaks down)

4) That’s the spending with the top-10 consulting firms across a large set of agencies? I’d have guessed it was higher.




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