Two thoughts. It was blue state and city governments cutting police and fire department employment while funding in Portland's case hundreds of millions for climate change. Second, the big issue here is massive overtime for retiring employees to artificially boost monthly retirement pensions. Massive accrued sick time is a separate issue having nothing to do with cutting officers. Ask me how I know…
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.
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DOGE Discovers That the VA Was Paying $350,000-$380,000 Per Month For Minor Tweaks to Its Website
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."
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God will not be mocked. I sincerely believe that after all the events of the last 10 years or so.
If you have to frame it as "simulation theory" to accept it so be it.
When they cut officer numbers but the work load is the same or more OT is the result. Ask me how I know...
Two thoughts. It was blue state and city governments cutting police and fire department employment while funding in Portland's case hundreds of millions for climate change. Second, the big issue here is massive overtime for retiring employees to artificially boost monthly retirement pensions. Massive accrued sick time is a separate issue having nothing to do with cutting officers. Ask me how I know…
OT doesn't count toward pensions anywhere i know of. Only salary counts.
It does in Oregon. OT is wages.
Damn I should have worked in Oregon!
Vanilla won't let me edit. Looked the OT bump up. It's limited and set for a certain number of hours that the employer thinks would be normal.
urban heat island effect is not climate change
England has been Trumped!
Lawfare on a scale unseen in history. Demonrat communist operatives appointed by Obunghole. BidenBros cheer.
BidenBros crying because they can't fund Americas enemies is priceless.
And the leftists think Trump is mean.
Shocking I tell you...NOT
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.
Good news for the Pennsylvania working man. Leftards will weep for Gaia. Just don't call it a religion.
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