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The ACA was external tech workers, a company called CGI Federal.

The government has some programmers, but the vast majority is done by contractors. That lets the executive branch claim to have reduced those dastardly government workers, and replaced them with upstanding, virtuous, competent, handsome private industry.

Even before the recent harrowing there weren't a lot of government programmers left. Government employees award and manage contracts.



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