There ought to be a federal department exclusively focused on making government work better, that is, government efficiency.| goodscience.substack.com
Recently, DOGE has bragged about terminating 89 contracts worth a collective $881 million at the Institute for Education Sciences at the US Department of Education.| goodscience.substack.com
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.| The White House
At a recent UNDP event on increasing government efficiency and digitalization, I spoke to representatives across a country’s government about how public institutions can — and should — navigate an increasingly uncertain world. tl;dr: We should not be trying to build hyper-efficient public sector organisations that spend their time making rigid, non-adaptable, long-term plans. What the public sector needs is efficacy (not just efficiency) and non-wasteful slack that can adapt and be rede...| Vaughn Tan
The figures from Elon Musk’s team of outsiders represent billions in government cuts. They are also full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations.| www.nytimes.com