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. 48 vCPUs are throttled curating the USAID grant network for every single EIN, will take a while (~12 hours). Which is …