DOGE streicht Fördergelder und Sinnlosverträge

Heute morgen berichtete die WELT über Grausamkeiten von Elon Musk gegenüber dem Nationalen Gesundheitsinstitut (NIH) der USA. Ich habe nun mal nachgesehen, was zum Beispiel gefördert wurde:

Other grant examples from @NIH:

: – $100K for Vanderbilt University to study “social networks” among “sexual and gender minorities”

– $37K for the University of Houston to study “fear of deportation” in “Latinx young adults”

– $681K for the University of Pennsylvania to study “social media anti-vaping messages” among “sexual and gender minority teens”

– $225K for the University of Colorado to study the “effects of hormones on headaches in transmasculine adolescents”

– $620K for “an LGB+ inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys”

– $699K for studying “cannabis use” among “sexual minority gender diverse individuals”

– $740K for examining “social networks” among “black and Latino sexual minority men in New Jersey”

– $50K for assessing “sexual health” among “LGTBQ+ Latinx youth in an agricultural community”

– $75K for researching “structural racism”

Ich kann das nicht alles super übersetzen, aber offensichtilch legte Biden Wert darauf, Schwangerschaftsvorbeugung für Transgender Jungs zu betreiben. Oder hab ich da was falsch verstanden???

Am 19. März ging es um mehr Dollars:

Today, agencies cancelled 47 contracts with a ceiling value of $185M and savings of $90M, including:

-$3.1M for “healthy relationships social media presence”

-$3.5M for consultants “to provide professional IT cloud, software, hardware expertise, and expertise in customer experience, data analysis, project mgmt and technical writing”

Am 21. März;

Today, agencies terminated 105 contracts with a ceiling value of $935M and $580M in savings, including a $1.03M National Science Foundation consulting contract for “fitness center services”.

Am 22. März:

Good work by @NASA this week:
-Eliminated their unused Purchasing Cards (~80%)
-Terminated ~$420M in unneeded contracts, including $45M ($15M each) to three separate consultants, all for „Change Management Support Services”

Auch bei der Digitalisierung die übliche Verschwendung:

Agencies often have more software licenses than employees, and the licenses are often idle (i.e. paid for, but not installed on any computer). For example, at GSA, with 13,000 employees, there are:

– 37,000 WinZip licenses

– 19,000 training software subscriptions (and multiple parallel training software platforms)

-7,500 project management software seats for a division with 5,500 employees

– 3 different ticketing systems running in parallel

HUD (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development);

completed the same audit. Initial findings on paid software licenses:

– 35,855 ServiceNow licenses on three products; only using 84

– 11,020 Acrobat licenses with zero users

– 1,776 Cognos licenses; only using 325

– 800 WestLaw Classic licenses; only using 216

– 10,000 Java licenses; only using 400

Grüße an den Inlandgeheimdienst:

Schrecken ist genug verbreitet,
Hilfe sei nun eingeleitet! –
Schlage, heil’gen Stabs Gewalt,
Daß der Boden bebt und schallt!

(Geh. Rath v. Goethe)