2025 Law and Policy

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Musk Leaves Ashes – Are We Coming to a Phoenix Yet?

When Infrastructure professionals saw President Trump’s Executive Order creating the DOGE and appointing Elon Musk to head it, many of us were elated. Finally, they were doing what we have been asking for years—installing digital infrastructure, digitalizing management systems, driving them with data and creating robust data-driven management capacity in essentially all agencies. The text…Read More

Hearing March 11, 2025 U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations

Congressman Pete Sessions 2157 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Congressman Kweisi Mfume 2263 Rayburn HOB Washington, DC 20515 RE: Hearing March 11, 2025 U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations Shifting Gears: Moving from Recovery to Prevention of Improper Payments and Fraud Dear Congressmen: The Blueprint…Read More

DOGE – Redux – Blueprint 2025 Commentary After – 100 days

Blueprint 2025’s comments on (1) President Trump’s Executive Order which established the DOGE and (2) the process by which it has been carried out have gone from positive to negative. This is not because of the Order or its vision, but, rather, because of the blunt, ham-handed and unsophisticated way in which it has been…Read More