🧵 ICE's entire budget last year was $8.2B but we're supposed to believe they had a single $8B contract? That's part of the $55B saved. - ThreadSky

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fosojedi.bsky.social • 3 days ago

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ICE's entire budget last year was $8.2B but we're supposed to believe they had a single $8B contract?

That's part of the $55B saved.

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fosojedi.bsky.social•3 days ago

So, what are some of the other "savings"? Several Blanket Purchase Agreements with $20M. What are those? They allow an agency to buy goods from a company repeatedly. But it doesn't mean they're going to spend $20M from that company. It just means they can keep buying from them.

fosojedi.bsky.social•3 days ago

Or there are the several DEI training vendors that were cleared for up to $25M and were contact vehicles similar to the BPAs. Again, it doesn't mean those companies were going to get $25M. It means that the government could utilize any of those companies freely and pay each time up to that amount.

fosojedi.bsky.social•3 days ago

CFPB had similar training vendors but they were limited to $9,999,999.

fosojedi.bsky.social•3 days ago

They also list contracts like this where there are $0 in savings.

But because it's a Department of Education contract, they definitely want to show it's cancelled.

fosojedi.bsky.social•3 days ago

And, realistically, is this really a contact the Department of State wanted to cancel??

Or are we turning those services over to Musk?

fosojedi.bsky.social•3 days ago

And apparently we cancelled a $1B contract with Leidos for the Social Security Administration!?!?

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