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Trump’s ‘Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos’ might seem like a minor action, but it’s worth a look

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President Donald Trump issued an executive order to stop waste, fraud, and abuse by eliminating silos.

Julian Zelizer : Isolating information in silos squanders the benefits of pooled data.

He says silos serve a purpose for protecting personal data, especially sensitive data held by the government.

Zelizer says the order could force agencies to hand it over to any federal official the president chooses.

The March 20 executive order gives the federal government "unfettered access to comprehensive data from all State programs that receive Federal funding, including, as appropriate, data generated by those programs but maintained in third -party databases.

That seems to mean that not only will the silos between federal and state data be compromised, but the government could get access to some information in private hands too.

Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander: DOGE is "engaging in a fishing expedition in search of a fraud epidemic".

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