This title is pretty misleading (I appreciate it's basically the same as the article's title). He's not saying he'll fund the govt department, he's saying he'll

This title is pretty misleading (I appreciate it's basically the same as the article's title). He's not saying he'll fund the govt department, he's saying he'll fund a private venture made up of the people formerly employed in 18f. And he predicts that venture will be able to gouge the public purse when the govt inevitably realises the cuts they made were far too deep. As others have pointed out, this is a deeply right-wing idea and exactly what the Republican party wants to see happen.