"There may be more public benefit in directing it to other services or returning it to taxpayers," said Mr. Austin, an economist with the National Center for Public Policy Research's Project 21, a network of Black conservatives. "If nobody knows of it and nobody is using it, what benefit is there to having the service out there?"
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Mr. Austin, a former economic adviser to two Kansas governors, said DOGE layoffs reflect the reality that perpetual growth in the federal workforce has become financially unsustainable.
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