DOGE wants businesses to run government services 'as much as possible'

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Source: Washington Post

March 30, 2025 at 8:05 a.m. EDT


Mail delivery. Real estate. Foreign aid grants. The Trump administration is moving to privatize a sweeping number of government functions and assets — a long-standing Republican goal that’s being catalyzed by billionaire Elon Musk.
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The slash-and-burn approach of Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is paving the way for a new shift to the private sector, reducing the size and power of the federal bureaucracy in a real-world test of the conservative theory — a version of which is also widely popular in Silicon Valley — that companies are better than government at saving money and responding to people’s needs.

Examples are popping up across Washington and in proposals from President Donald Trump’s allies, though the plans are various stages of development and, in some cases, have already encountered resistance.

At the DOGE-allied General Services Administration, officials are quietly moving ahead with a push to sell hundreds of publicly owned buildings to private companies — which can then lease them back to the government, theoretically saving maintenance and upkeep costs for taxpayers, according to two people briefed on internal deliberations who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss them publicly.

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This is how clueless they are - more than half the "government workforce" ARE "contractors" = "privatization".

All those DOGE orgy parties "cancelling contracts" WAS the "cancelling" of "private industry". Those people aren't "civil service" employees. That was all done 30 years ago, not long after the dumbass actually moved to the U.S.



(from here - https://www.brookings.edu/articles/is-government-too-big-reflections-on-the-size-and-composition-of-todays-federal-government/)

And there really aren't that many "government (GSA)-owned" buildings either. Much of the space that employees have been working in (especially outside of D.C.) were/are leased PRIVATE space.