- they are tax-paying citizens. You mean "private-sector" - a better analogy would be your organization is taken over every 4/8 years by a direct competitor, a

- they are tax-paying citizens. You mean "private-sector" - a better analogy would be your organization is taken over every 4/8 years by a direct competitor, and the new executives order you to sideline/mothball your previous product/website, and possibly cut off the existing customers (for healthcare websites, or IT systems, which is what USDS existing activity was). Or chainsaw reengineering of the orgchart. So, "loyalty" to which person/goal/contract/Act of Congress, exactly? Where these conflict, you could always allege something. (For example, killing IRS Direct Free-File over at IRS seems to violate many things, and raises many questions.) - reportedly ~50 of the sidelined 200 legacy employees at DOGE (formerly USDS) were fired Friday - DOGE picked USDS to parachute into to bootstrap themselves, reinterviewed the legacy employees then sidelined them. Also part of the reason is USDS was created under the Office of the President, hence it's shielded from Presidential Records Act, which effectively buys them years and immunity from any court challenges. - really your analogy is not to anything often seen in the private-sector world, even in hostile takeovers of large orgs - going forward, what would be a less chainsaw way to reengineer govt IT operations? Hire govt IT employees on a fixed-term non-renewable contract? Would they expect to be laid off every 2/4/8 years? That will reduce the pool of people prepared to live in the DC area and take those jobs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service