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USDS = taxpayer value, former White House deputy CTO says

Fedscoop: The White House tech-surge team’s mission of developing more effective and efficient digital services for Americans fits quite nicely with the Trump administration’s agenda to decrease the burden on taxpayers, a former White House deputy CTO said Monday.

The U.S. Digital Service doesn’t explicitly tout “taxpayer value” as one of its core focuses, but it’s inherently tangential to its mission, said Nick Sinai, a former deputy CTO in the Obama administration when the White House launched the USDS. Though the program isn’t a codified component of the Office of Management and Budget, which oversees its operation, the Trump White House has signaled its interest in keeping the team around in some capacity.

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