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Anonymous ID: bcebf8 Jan. 20, 2026, 4:55 a.m. No.24147891 🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Anonymous ID: bcebf8 Jan. 20, 2026, 4:57 a.m. No.24147896 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>7899

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How bad is it really?

https://x.com/beaverd/status/2013366996180574446

Beaver 🦁@beaverd

Deloitte, a $74 billion cancer metastasized across America

Consulting fees

You were never meant to hear the name "Deloitte" and you were never meant to know that the government has wasted $74 billion by working with them. Quietly, Deloitte is one of the largest contractors "building" American government IT systems. Medicaid enrollment, unemployment insurance, child welfare case management, food assistance eligibility. When you interact with a state benefits system, theres a decent chance Deloitte built it.

In building the 600m row (and growing) database for somaliscan, I sorted through literally millions of invoices, and once name continued to appear; Deloitte. California's unemployment fraud disaster that cost the state $32 billion? Built by Deloitte. Tennessee kicking 250,000 children off Medicaid? Built by Deloitte. The billion dollar software project in California that got cancelled after spending the budget? Ding ding ding, DELOITTE.

I decided to dig into federal contracts, state contracts, documented failures, lawsuits, audits, etc. I found a huge $40 billion tax payer farm.

Over the past two decades, Deloitte has received roughly $30 billion in federal contracts and at least $10 billion more from states. This massive number wouldn't be an issue if Deloitte wasn't doing an irredeemably terrible job at providing the government with services. In every single state they've provided service (25) they had significant system failures. Wrongful benefit denials affecting hundreds of thousands, fraud vulnerabilities that cost the taxpayer BILLIONS, projects that ran 5x over budget before getting cancelled.

AND THEY KEEP GETTING HIRED BY THE GOVERNMENT.

California: Deloitte built the EDD system that processed unemployment claims. The state paid out over $31 billion in fraudulent claims. Auditors warned about the vulnerabilities for years, nothing was done. And after COVID, California RE-HIRED DELOITTE to FIX THE PROBLEMS.

Tennessee: After COVID in 2023, states had to re-check whether everyone on Medicaid was still eligible. TN's system, built by Deloitte, malfunctioned to a failure point and over 250,000 children lost coverage because the system processed them incorrectly.

CCMS (CA courts): In 2004, California hired Deloitte to build a unified court case management system. Budget was $260 million. By 2012, they'd spent $1.9 BILLION AND PROCESSED 102 CHANGE ORDERS. The state killed the project.

And the stories just keep adding up, across every single state contract Deloitte took, there are one or more catastrophic failures.

The Usual Suspects

Deloitte spends about $1.35 million/year on federal lobbying. Their PAC gave $3.6m in the last election cycle, split evenly between parties. Theres a few million more in state-level contributions. These aren't huge numbers by DC standards, not enough to buy outcomes directly.

The issue is the revolving door of government employees that move between Deloitte and the government agencies that award contracts. State health directors leave the government and join Deloitte, managers from Deloitte take up state IT departments. Hill staffers that worked on healthcare policy show up at Deloitte.

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