Congress should grow the Digital Services budget, it more than pays for itself

The Trump Administration recently celebrated the first anniversary of the President’s Management Agenda to modernize government — by highlighting VA.gov, the new simplified and consolidated website that provides Veterans with a much-improved experience to find and access the benefits and services they deserve. Yet, the recently released President’s 2020 Budget more than halves the budget of the tech team that helped rebuild VA.gov — the U.S. Digital Service (USDS). It’s not just the VA.gov project that is showing results — the U.S. Digital Service has worked on important projects like making it easier for our military families to relocate around the world as they work to keep us safe and protected, making government systems more secure by launching bug bounty programs to identify technology vulnerabilities before they can be exploited, and working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the healthcare industry to improve patient access to data and care.

Source: thehill.com