Trump Administration Honing In On Major Reform For Scammy Government Contracting Sector

President Donald Trump is taking a sledgehammer to one of Washington’s most bloated industries: federal consulting.

For decades, politically connected consulting firms have siphoned billions from taxpayers with vague deliverables and padded labor costs. But now, under Trump’s leadership, this may finally be coming to an end.

Firms that once acted like they had the upper hand are now slashing fees, offering credits worth hundreds of millions, and even throwing in free artificial intelligence (AI) services just to stay in the government’s good graces.

Seven of the ten largest federal consulting firms — including Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte, and IBM — have scrambled to offer up to $20 billion in concessions after the Trump administration demanded they cut prices or risk being booted from government contracts altogether, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The ten firms combined are set to rake in more than $65 billion in fees from their current federal contracts.

The administration already gave them a chance to eliminate non-essential spending, but