beSpacific<p>Former <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> engineer says federal <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/waste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waste</span></a> and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fraud</span></a> were 'relatively nonexistent' - I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/efficient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>efficient</span></a> the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> was," Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers. Without federal government, civil servants Americans, federal <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>funding</span></a> and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/grants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grants</span></a>, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a>, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>innovation</span></a>,# stewardship, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/arts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arts</span></a>, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/technolog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technolog</span></a> , <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a> and list used to go on, until it was abruptly and illegally halted.<a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-5417994/former-doge-engineer-shares-his-experience-working-for-the-cost-cutting-unit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-54179</span><span class="invisible">94/former-doge-engineer-shares-his-experience-working-for-the-cost-cutting-unit</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/MMM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MMM</span></a> continues to fail - ignoring the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/facts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>facts</span></a></p>