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Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent' (www.npr.org)

submitted 11 months ago by tfm to c/Obviously

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30882562

A former employee of the Department of Government Efficiency says that he found that the federal waste, fraud and abuse that his agency was supposed to uncover were "relatively nonexistent" during his short time embedded within the Department of Veterans Affairs.

"I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was," Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.

Lavingia was a successful software developer and the founder of Gumroad, a platform for online sales, when he joined DOGE in March. Lavingia said he had previously sought to work for the U.S. Digital Service, the technology unit that was renamed and restructured by the Trump administration. He told NPR that he just wanted to make government websites easier for citizens to use and didn't really care which presidential administration he was working for, despite protests from his friends and family.

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[–] _core@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Its laudable to try and remove political considerations from the job you take but in the case of working for DOGE (or other obviously political organizations) you're either willfully condoning their actions or trying to pretend you're not condoning their actions to cover your ass.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd prefer a neutral engineer at DOGE to a MAGA engineer, though.

[–] DoPeopleEvenLookHere@piefed.social 7 points 11 months ago

how are you neutral at the fascist government branch?

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 11 months ago

As much as government run things are much maligned. In my experience they run with high quality and efficiency. I think people complain because of the lack of options. You can't easily go to a competitor (because if you could half the us would move).