> To fix it will be extremely costly and painful. The last few years of the Obama administration, the White House proposed budget included an interesting and u

> To fix it will be extremely costly and painful. The last few years of the Obama administration, the White House proposed budget included an interesting and useful (IMHO) line item to address this. The gist of it was that any department could draw up a plan to take a loan against their future budgets to pay down IT efficiency projects (including streamlining of processes and improvements to cybersecurity posture). I doubt a Republican Congress would go for larger federal spending now for future savings, but I hope that all "government should be small and efficient" advocates would give this kind of proposal serious thought.