VA-based DOGE associate gets ‘the boot’ after publicly discussing his work

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Michael O'Neill

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May 28, 2025, 2:59:04 PMMay 28
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Submitted without comment.

OK, one comment: I guess we should be glad he learned these things?

“In meetings with the Office of the CTO, I discovered ambitious ongoing software projects like reducing veterans' benefits claims processing from 133 days to under a week,” wrote Lavingia. “I also learned that several of VA's code repos were already open-source, and the world's first electronic health record system, VistA, was built by VA employees over 40 years ago.”

Nancy Anthracite

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May 28, 2025, 4:08:30 PMMay 28
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Thank you, Mike.  I would like to invite that person who was booted to one of our support calls!


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> Submitted without comment.

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> https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/05/va-based-doge-associate-gets-boot-after-publicly-discussing-his-work/405636/

K.S. Bhaskar

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May 29, 2025, 11:03:58 AMMay 29
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His blog at https://sahillavingia.com/doge is worth a read.

Regards
- Bhaskar

Nancy Anthracite

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May 29, 2025, 11:54:06 AMMay 29
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Thanks!


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On Thursday, May 29, 2025 10:03:58 AM CDT K.S. Bhaskar wrote:

> His blog at https://sahillavingia.com/doge is worth a read.

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> Regards

> - Bhaskar

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> On Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 4:08:30 PM UTC-4 Nancy Anthracite wrote:

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> > Thank you, Mike.  I would like to invite that person who was booted to one

> > of our support calls!

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> > Nancy Anthracite

Michael O'Neill

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Skip

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Jun 7, 2025, 8:05:39 AMJun 7
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Reminds me of a half century plus acronym we used to use: GIGO 

Nancy Anthracite

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Jun 7, 2025, 8:34:38 AMJun 7
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GIGO?


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On Saturday, June 7, 2025 7:05:39 AM CDT Skip wrote:

> Reminds me of a half century plus acronym we used to use: GIGO

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> On Friday, June 6, 2025 at 9:25:24 AM UTC-4 Michael O'Neill wrote:

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> > Some additional details (none are reassuring).

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> > https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-veterans-affairs-ai-contracts-health-care

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> > On May 29, 2025, at 11:53 AM, Nancy Anthracite <nanth...@earthlink.net>

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> > Thanks!

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Skip Ormsby

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Nancy Anthracite

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Jun 7, 2025, 9:46:09 AMJun 7
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Never mind.  I figured it out!


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On Saturday, June 7, 2025 7:34:22 AM CDT Nancy Anthracite wrote:

> GIGO?

Mike Baker

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Jun 7, 2025, 2:44:11 PMJun 7
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Do not drive into the lake!  Yes the VA can not blindly follow directions from a computer program no matter how intelligent it claims to be.  The intelligence still needs to be human when it comes to budget cutting.  I think it was interesting what the DOGE guy said in the first article.  That generally budget cuts should have come from middle and upper management not the people actually providing services.

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