GSA to Run More Like a Business, Administrator Says

The head of the General Services Administration says the agency will be run “more like a business” after the Trump administration downsized its operations and canceled many federal contracts as part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s cost-cutting efforts.

GSA Deputy Administrator Stephen Ehikian, who is the agency’s acting administrator, said on Thursday at the GovExec Government Efficiency Summit that the agency is planning a “build back” to position the agency to be run “more like a business … where it’s much more efficient, much more effective and [with] much more of an eye towards our stakeholders, which is the American taxpayer.”

Ehikian said that “the build back isn’t just bringing it back to where it was before; it is rethinking the GSA.”

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