Comment by junon

> It's just the default nature of systems that were created by different agencies, under different projects with different teams.

... Yes, because those teams by default do not simply get to share access, because of various very well understood security and privacy issues by doing so.

> Trump only granted DOGE a 12 month window to eliminate waste, and there's 400 federal agencies, so parallelism is crucial.

That's what he says, at least. Also, if their current blatant lying[0] about the """waste""" continues then I don't really see a point. It seems clear Musk and the Breakfast Club boys who are unilaterally changing government finances have no idea how a government contract works (or it's willful ignorance).

[0] https://x.com/electricfutures/status/1891898336208105676