Roe created the State Policy Network in 1992.

TIL that Krieble funded the first of its kind Russian corporation for cooperation between Russia and U.S. businesses in 1991

The Club for Growth was founded in 1999 by Stephen Moore, Thomas L. Rhodes, and Richard Gilder. Stephen Moore worked at the Heritage Foundation from 1983 to 1987 and again since 2014.

ITEP provides an 80% tax abatement for up to 10 years. This is supposed to be in exchange for job creation and economic investment in Louisiana. Except Landry removed the requirement for job creation back in Feb.

As Landry explains, "It is not about job creation. It is about capital investment."

To sweeten corporate welfare as an incentive to business, Landry is now giving businesses with existing ITEP contracts the ability to "opt-out" of previous requirements binding them in their current contracts.

So come to Louisiana, exploit whatever you need, benefit from corporate welfare and now you don't even have to create jobs to do it.

The Louisiana Comeback campaign created by [GNO Inc.](https://web.archive.org/web/20230321040815/https://neworleanscitybusiness.com/blog/2023/03/17/louisiana-is-one-of-the-mo

While the economy is still trying to recover from the nosedive it took due to Trump's failed(?) AI tariffs math, Guidehouse will be getting paid to tell the Army how they should be spending money.

In August of 2024, on behalf of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller) (ASA(FM&C)) issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for Army Financial Improvement (AFI).](https://sam.gov/opp/1e1313d86ead46db83316abdea7c1661/view#20240828)

The RFP was a "full and open competition for a single award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, with a maximum value of about $250 million over three years."

Weird how so many of these contracts just happen to be going to Guidehouse over and over again while the government is [supposedly eliminating as many consulting contracts as they can in order to cut costs.](https://www.businessinsider.com/deloitte

The state actually hired 2 consulting firms to help with oversight and management of the funds from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).

Obviously Guidehouse was one firm. The other was 929 Strategies, a public policy and "government relations consulting company." 929 Strategies was founded by former state labor commissioner, Melissa McLawhorn Houston.

McLawhorn Houston served on the current Governor of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt’s transition team. You can read more about Oklahoma's ARPA money and McLawhorn Houston in this article written by Oklahoma's SPN affiliate.

Once again, I find it so odd that multiple "small government" loving elected politicians across multiple states, are not only all connected by the same Heritage Foundation affiliate network, [SPN](https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Portal%3AState_Policy

The Energy Department has identified 16 federal sites that could house powerful data centers to advance U.S. artificial intelligence technologies. The goal is to begin construction on new AI sites by the end of 2027. DOE is seeking feedback from data center developers, energy firms and the public as part of a request for information released last week. The RFI is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to advance AI and boost energy production. Feedback to DOE is due by April 20.

*The first link I tried to use to a hill article covering the story is working, but was showing an access denied title in the thumbnail Here is a link to the hill article

Florida Republican Rep. Donalds along with Democratic Rep. Moskowitz recently introduced a "bipartisan" bill to liberate FEMA from Homeland Security and turn it into a cabinet position.

Moskowitz, was one of Trump's early picks to lead FEMA and also the first Democrat to join DOGE

The bill was introduced the same day Department of Homeland Security Secretary [Noem announced during a televised Cabinet meeting that DHS intended to eliminate FEMA](https://thehill.com/newslette

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60369289

Part 2: https://toad.social/@PimentoMori/114280296722159897

Part 3: https://toad.social/@PimentoMori/114280389161260976

If you find anything going on in your state, please post it here: https://lemm.ee/c/stateleveldoge

Total Contract Value: $38,127,127.20

Omg how is that even a real number. For one single contract?!? Are you fucking kidding me!?

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/25573398

Congratulations, Wisconsin!

Again, we have "savings" coming from DOGE at the state level from cuts.

When Landry proposed his original 2026 budget, state level cuts were supposedly making things more efficient. These cuts will somehow be offset by federal rewards in more funding for the states efficiency effort. However, the federal government seems to be slashing more funding anyway.

So are we really being "rewarded" or just fucked over at the state and federal level?

If Medicaid is unsustainable that means healthcare cuts.

When you're looking for where you should be making healthcare cuts what makes the most logical sense to you?

At least having a discussion about how these administrative salaries and positions are actually justified?

Or

•Slash and burn policy eliminating doctors that were already accepting Medicaid

•Reducing care offered to patients so that the patients will then indeed become less healthy, rely on emergency services and require more costly care in the long run

•Claiming Medicaid is unsustainable bc "no doctors want to accept Medicaid patients."

If you abruptly eliminate all the doctors that do accept Medicaid and then claim you need to increase the Medicaid budget to incentivise doctors in order to get them to accept Medicaid patients, then yes, by default it becomes easy to make the argument that no doctors in your hospital "want to accept Medicaid."

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/59903645

I will put references for all of this info in a comment to save space:

So back in Feb Landry announced he found $11M in savings from Louisiana Department of Health (LDH).

It turns out that a few weeks before that, Louisiana DOGE held secret meetings with Tara LeBlanc, an employee who works for Guidehouse, a consulting firm in the DC area. Before she worked for Guidehouse, she was director of Medicaid at LDH. Since these meetings were held in secret, there is no public record and we don't know what they actually discussed (which is a violation of transparency law).

1 week after Landry said he found $11M in savings, he announces LA DOGE was partnering with the LA Legislative auditor to find savings.

A little under two weeks after that, the LA Legislative auditor releases a report saying that LDH is being audited for misspending funds for Medicaid program MCIP, which was designed to enhance health outcomes for pati

For the most part Louisiana, pretty much tends to be the epitome of voter apathy.

2/3rds of voters showed up and said fuck fascism. We might not win, but we're not going down without a fight.

If we can do it, anyone can.