On WBUR's “Here Now” aired on Friday's WBUR, Jennifer Parlka, assistant chief tech officer of the Obama White House, said that some of the spending cuts coming to Doge would force “a lot of innovation,” saying, “sometimes they'll work really effectively and effectively in the 21st century,” but the shootings are indiscriminate, and “some of the people with the best approach and skills are being fired.”
Pahlka said [relevant remarks begin around 2:15] She hopes Doge's work will challenge him from cutting people to cutting functions to cleaning up the accumulation of regulations, policies and processes for many years.
Co-host Scotton asked: For example, biomedical research is, in fact, if NIH grants have much less money for what is called indirect costs, if less money is available, then it's what you know, because people in that space say, we don't have much money to do it, so should we find our own way? ”
Pahlka replied. “I think there's a lot of it. Sometimes, in the 21st century, you get shocked by the system to get people to design something that actually works, meets their needs, and is often more efficient, as well as more effective. But I think the right way to do that is a more discriminatory change. So we're seeing this indiscriminate firing, where some of the people with the best approaches and skills are fired.”
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