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Episode: NextGov/FCW’s Natalie Alms on the early days of DOGE and its cost-cut decisions
Description: Cuts to contract and grant spending, including outright cancellations, were a feature of the Department of Government Efficiency’s activities during the first year of the Trump administration and some lawsuits followed from those impacted.
Natalie Alms, senior correspondent at NextGov/FCW, worked with our colleague and fellow senior reporter Eric Katz at Government Executive to watch 23 hours of testimony in one of those cases that sheds light on DOGE’s goals and the pressures to meet them.
“Nat” joins our Ross Wilkers for this episode to explain what she and Eric discovered in reporting out a st...