This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchel.

This is CBS, I on the world.

I'm John Batchel, the Scholar Report with CEO Chris Wrigal of Scholar.com,

a global technology firm transforming the retail space with digitalization.

And we look upon Chris's information, his dataset, as a way to tell the story now called Doge, Washington, D.C.

I read in the journal, in the Washington Post and the New York Times the considerable anxiety in the federal workforce about what comes next.

Chris, a very good evening to you.

The anxiety looks like am I going to lose my job and do I have to sell my house?

And it goes in all directions, Maryland, Virginia, up into

Pennsylvania, even as reaching as far as New Jersey. A number of federal workers have not gone

back to the office consistently since the pandemic. However, I'm curious as to whether this has

already hit D.C. and the surrounding area

because you can see the franchises, especially fast food and anything that accounts on heavy foot traffic.

Do you see it already?

Is it anticipating a complete change of weather in D.C.?

Good evening to you.

Good evening, John. To follow on your

weather analogy, Hurricane Elon is hit D.C. is a category five, and the greatest disruptions

are to the money flow. So both within federal agencies and within the contracting circles

around those federal agencies, there is sheer and utter panic

as to audits as to what happens next in throwing spanners into the wheel to look at some

...