On the executive branch funding released Sunday for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, lawmakers agreed on $124.3 million for salaries and expenses in the White House’s Office of Administration, with up to $12.8 million used for IT modernization. No more than $10 million of that IT pie should be spent for security and continuity of operations improvements.
The Information Technology Oversight and Reform (ITOR) bucket, which historically has supported the Office of the Federal CIO and the now-defunct U.S. Digital Service, would receive $8 million under the new budget. House Appropriations Republicans said in their press release that that money would be used to fund the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which has replaced USDS as the U.S. DOGE Service. That $8 million figure is a fraction of the Trump administration’s initial ask.
The appropriators additionally expressed concerns about the federal government’s current approach to cloud infrastructure, which they said “does not promote a secure and interoperable environment that enables Federal agencies to adapt to technological advances and save taxpayer dollars.”
Lambert here: So the Cloud is effed up, but it’s OK for DOGE to stash all our Social Security data there. Oh-k-a-a-a-y….
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