Doug Burgum

Well, now we have a 60-foot strip that's been transferred to the U.S. DOD. If someone sets foot on that, they're trespassing on a military installation. Now the troops that President Trump, through the border emergency, has deployed down there, they can detain someone for that trespassing until the border patrol, who's got arrest authority, can arrest them.

So this is going to help with the collaboration between the Border Patrol and the NRDOD. And I was just down there last week as part in signing the order down there on the New Mexico border. But I'm telling you, the Border Patrol, I talked to multiple people, 20 plus years, 25 years in the service.

So this is going to help with the collaboration between the Border Patrol and the NRDOD. And I was just down there last week as part in signing the order down there on the New Mexico border. But I'm telling you, the Border Patrol, I talked to multiple people, 20 plus years, 25 years in the service.

They said they've never felt more supported in their job in doing law enforcement than they have right now under President Trump.

They said they've never felt more supported in their job in doing law enforcement than they have right now under President Trump.

Well, the systems, the IT systems are so bad at the federal level that it is, It's really some days absurd. And having spent my life selling business solutions in the tech business, software solutions, then this is an area that I'm particularly interested in. But we come in with the basic questions that any business could ask. You can't get answers.

Well, the systems, the IT systems are so bad at the federal level that it is, It's really some days absurd. And having spent my life selling business solutions in the tech business, software solutions, then this is an area that I'm particularly interested in. But we come in with the basic questions that any business could ask. You can't get answers.

I mean, you come in and say, well, how many contracts and grants do we have and how many people are administering them? Hard to find out those numbers, but then you find out that just Interior Loan was managing 36,000 contracts and grants, and this was almost double just during the last four years during the Biden administration.

I mean, you come in and say, well, how many contracts and grants do we have and how many people are administering them? Hard to find out those numbers, but then you find out that just Interior Loan was managing 36,000 contracts and grants, and this was almost double just during the last four years during the Biden administration.

The amount of money that was flying out of the federal government between November 6th of last fall and January 20th of this year on a chart, on a graph is just, again, ridiculous. But then you say, well, then how many people are managing that? You have grants management in the private sector or contract management, but the ratios sometimes are off by a factor of five or more.

The amount of money that was flying out of the federal government between November 6th of last fall and January 20th of this year on a chart, on a graph is just, again, ridiculous. But then you say, well, then how many people are managing that? You have grants management in the private sector or contract management, but the ratios sometimes are off by a factor of five or more.

The number of HR people that may exist in some of these departments relative to the total number of folks. We might have one HR person for every 30 team members at the federal government. In the private sector, it'd be one for 200. So it's like we could be off by five or six in terms of what I'd call the bureaucratic overhead.

The number of HR people that may exist in some of these departments relative to the total number of folks. We might have one HR person for every 30 team members at the federal government. In the private sector, it'd be one for 200. So it's like we could be off by five or six in terms of what I'd call the bureaucratic overhead.

And when we take a look like today, when we're out at this national park and you meet these hardworking, dedicated people that are interfacing every day with our citizens doing their job, they also are dealing with the bureaucracy. We had good people trying to do the job, but they're dealing with the overhead that exists. And I think we can strip out a lot of that overhead.

And when we take a look like today, when we're out at this national park and you meet these hardworking, dedicated people that are interfacing every day with our citizens doing their job, they also are dealing with the bureaucracy. We had good people trying to do the job, but they're dealing with the overhead that exists. And I think we can strip out a lot of that overhead.

And it's never been cleaned out. State governments have to balance their budget. The federal government never has. So this is like a barn that's been filled up for 100 years and nothing has been thrown away. And we're going in that barn and we're taking everything out and put in the yard. And then we're deciding what's going to go back in. And the only thing that goes back in

And it's never been cleaned out. State governments have to balance their budget. The federal government never has. So this is like a barn that's been filled up for 100 years and nothing has been thrown away. And we're going in that barn and we're taking everything out and put in the yard. And then we're deciding what's going to go back in. And the only thing that goes back in

is stuff that actually adds value to the citizens. And that it also is stuff that is purposeful work for the people that are doing it. Because we don't need to be paying federal employees to be doing mind-numbing, soul-sucking, repetitive paperwork, literally paperwork, because we don't have the systems. Those folks, you know, there's 10 million jobs open in America.

is stuff that actually adds value to the citizens. And that it also is stuff that is purposeful work for the people that are doing it. Because we don't need to be paying federal employees to be doing mind-numbing, soul-sucking, repetitive paperwork, literally paperwork, because we don't have the systems. Those folks, you know, there's 10 million jobs open in America.

And if we can reduce the number of people working for the federal government, which the Biden administration increased that a lot. I mean, you saw the jobs report during this time, and, oh, jobs are up 200,000. Well, 150,000 of them might have been government jobs.