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The Pragmatist Papers

Publications and essays from the We the Doers team.

Our First Report

Today marks the one-year anniversary of DOGE—and the release of We the Doers’ first report, Former Civil Servants Speak: How to Achieve Real Reform in a Post-DOGE World. This report—the output of our first workshop with former senior civil servants in December—reflects our belief that efficiency shouldn’t be measured just in terms of cuts, but […]

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Former Civil Servants Speak: How to Achieve Real Government Reform in a Post-DOGE World  

As the one-year anniversary of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) approached, We the Doers, a new organization of reform-minded former civil servants, convened a panel to answer a single question: “What would it actually take to deliver the federal government the American people deserve – in an efficient, cost-effective manner?” This group’s recommendations, drawn from a combined 88 years of federal leadership experience and described in detail in this report, were far-reaching and innovative:...

This Isn’t a Think Tank

We’ve worked through and around the challenges of bureaucracy long enough to understand what matters at a foundational level, and how to distinguish the proverbial babies from the bathwater. That’s the difference between performative reform headlines and real change, and that’s what it will take to fix the government....