Bill H.<p>You may have never heard of the Federal Acquisition Regulations - unless you're a particular type of govnerd. These are the rules that the U.S. government imposes on itself to make sure that it buys things pragmatically and ethically.</p><p>Notably, it sets the requirements for how the government may solicit solutions from vendors, so that things must be done transparently and fairly.</p><p>Gutting those regulations means, well, you get the opposite of that. <a href="https://mastodon.publicinterest.town/tags/FAR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FAR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.publicinterest.town/tags/govpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>govpunk</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-common-sense-to-federal-procurement/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac</span><span class="invisible">tions/2025/04/restoring-common-sense-to-federal-procurement/</span></a></p>