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Can the government save money by privatizing prisons, Medicare and other functions?

March 16, 2017 By Andrew Smith

Should we run the government like a business? The Conversation

Donald Trump seems to think so. During his campaign for president, Trump returned again and again to his supposed success as a businessman and promised government programs “under budget and ahead of schedule.” His hotel in Washington would be “a metaphor for what we can accomplish for this country.”

The qualities Trump sees in himself are what he seems have been looking for in his Cabinet. His nominees for the State, Treasury and Commerce departments are successful businessmen with no previous government experience. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao are both heirs to business fortunes.

Trump is not alone in this approach. George W. Bush touted his Harvard MBA. Six decades ago, Dwight Eisenhower’s Cabinet was described as “eight millionaires and a plumber.”

Keep reading this article at: http://www.govexec.com/management/2017/03/can-government-save-money-privatizing-prisons-medicare-and-other-functions/135916/

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More than $1 trillion possible in federal savings, says report handed to Trump team

January 25, 2017 By Andrew Smith

An organization of IT leaders says the federal government could make changes to save more than $1 trillion during the next decade.

Technology CEO CouncilAnd the Technology CEO Council says its report on how to do it is in the hands of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team — including Vice President-elect Mike Pence and incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.

The potential savings include $500 billion through supply chain and acquisition reform; $205 billion in potential reductions through using big data and analytics as well as cognitive computing to make decisions; and $110 billion through IT modernization.

strong federal cioThe report was released publicly Thursday, but a TCC spokesperson told FedScoop that IBM CEO Ginni Rometty shared it last month with the Trump team during the much-documented meeting of tech executives with the president-elect. TCC is the self-described “leading public policy advocacy organization” for the information technology industry, made up of exclusively IT company CEOs.

The federal IT community has not yet seen many direct indicators of how its work might be affected by Trump’s presidency. The report outlines paths the administration could take toward reducing government spending. Bruce Mehlman, executive director of TCC, said those ideas would not mean fewer government services.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.fedscoop.com/trump-federal-it-report-1-trillion-technology-ceo-council/

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