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Doug Burgum: “20 to 30% of every government employee is being consumed by…”

Featuring: Doug Burgum, Republican | U.S. Secretary of the Interior | National

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Published | Video Starts at 15:12

Yeah, so, so I, I think if you just business process improvement, you, you could take. It's not 20 or 30% of the team members in government are not doing their jobs. It's that 20 to 30% of every government employee is being consumed by some mind numbing, soul sucking work. that none of us in the private sector have ever had to do. I would like to relieve all of that and then you could take people off of that effort and put them towards the purposeful work that government could, can do. (15:12–15:20)

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Asserts that a significant portion of government employees' time is spent on inefficient tasks.

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