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The ill-fated Department of Government Efficiency didn\u2019t actually save the American taxpayers any money, but that doesn\u2019t mean that it didn\u2019t accomplish anything. For instance, it seems at least some of them figured out that there is a lot of money to be made by securing contracts with the Pentagon. According to a report from Reuters, a startup founded by several former DOGE employees just completed a funding round that values their company at $1.4 billion.<\/p>\n

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Fun fact: did you know DOGE was officially sunsetted on July 4th? It came and went with little fanfare because, after an initial dismantling of the \u201cwokest\u201d government agencies and seemingly blindly eliminating any contract that contained any word they didn\u2019t like without actually reviewing it, it just kinda stopped. Despite claiming to have saved more than $55 billion through its \u201creview\u201d process, experts put the figure closer to $7 billion when they\u2019re being generous and $1 billion when they\u2019re being realistic.<\/p>\n

But now some of the agency\u2019s former staffers are positioning themselves to pull in more money than they ever saved. Per Reuters, the ex-Elon Musk acolytes just closed a funding round for Cathedral, their military-targeted startup, that raised $160 million from the usual suspects, including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not even particularly hard at this point to identify the friendly dealings happening around this administration. Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz each donated $2.5 million to a pro-Trump super PAC. Several Sequoia Capital execs contributed to Trump, as well. They\u2019ve repeatedly gotten favorable decisions out of the Trump administration. They\u2019ve got such deep ties that they\u2019ve created step-by-step guides for their startups on how to secure government contracts. You could call the Trump administration a tangled web of self-enriching assholes, but it\u2019s not that tangled\u2014it\u2019s more of a straight line from one to the other.<\/p>\n

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You can probably expect Cathedral to be the next to cash in. Per Reuters, the company of former DOGE alumni is selling AI software designed to bolster the military\u2019s offensive and defensive cybersecurity capabilities meant to attack and deter foreign adversaries. With newfound scrutiny from the Trump administration aimed at Chinese AI companies, they\u2019ve probably got some willing buyers in the Pentagon waiting for them.<\/p>\n

The Cathedral boys also probably had a good idea that the money would be there. While DOGE did eventually get its grubby paws on the Pentagon\u2019s budget, it didn\u2019t do much cutting. As was the case with most of its dealings across the federal government, it mostly just cut people\u2019s jobs while the actual agency budget has increased. More money to spend and fewer people to spend it on means contracting out more work. And no one would better know the opportunity to cash in than the people who helped create it.<\/p>\n

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