If it takes 48 vCPUs and half a day to map USAID’s grant network, imagine what they don’t want you to see.

Federal bureaucracy isn’t just inefficient—it’s a fortress protecting political patronage. Kristol’s non-profit sitting at the receiving end of this tangled mess? Predictable. The delay isn’t in the processing—it’s in cutting through the intentional obfuscation.

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