“This is what the tech oligarchy looks like,” one writer said of a forecasted $400 million contract for the Elon Musk-owned company. A State Department procurement document was edited Wednesday night to remove the name “Tesla” after media outlets highlighted a forecasted $400 million contract for the company led by Elon Musk, who is currently working […]
“While the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has been on a rampage to root out ‘waste, fraud, and abuse,’ they’ve been ignoring the biggest money pit in the entire federal government,” said Rep. Summer Lee. As billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency makes its way through federal agencies with the aim of cutting spending that goes […]
“The administration is cracking down on all the ways that companies—through paperwork, hold times and general aggravation—waste people’s money, waste people’s time,” a White House official said. The Biden administration on Monday launched a wide-ranging consumer protection campaign called “Time Is Money” aimed at cracking down on hard-to-cancel services, deliberately poor customer service, and other […]
Amazon, which has reported $10.3 billion in recent federal contracts, paid CEO Andy Jassy 6,474 times more than it paid its median worker last year. As ordinary workers across the United States watched inflation eat away at modest wage gains in 2021, many corporations—including firms contracting with the federal government—used record-shattering profits to lavish their CEOs […]