US defence department cuts $4bn in consulting contracts

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The contract cuts come amid increasingly acrimonious attacks on consulting groups by the General Services Administration, which helps co-ordinate government procurement.
53% : In a podcast last month, Treasury secretary Scott Bessent singled out Booz Allen, which makes almost all its revenue from government contracts, as one of the companies involved in alleged "grift" and said reducing government contractors would be one of the administration's biggest sources of savings.
49% : Defence secretary Pete Hegseth determined the contracts to be "non-essential spending on third-party consultants" that could be carried out more efficiently by Pentagon employees, according to a memo he issued on Thursday.
48% : Hegseth also ordered the termination of 11 other consulting contracts that "support Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Climate, Covid-19 response, and other non-essential activities".
48% : " The cancellations by Hegseth come as Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency increasingly targets what it sees as egregious spending on consulting contracts.
39% : But sitting alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday in the Oval Office, Trump said the budget would hit "$1tn and nobody's seen anything like it".

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