This is John Batchel, a conversation with my colleague Chris Regal of Scala.com about the Doge Boys and what comes next.

Chris points to the contractors, not government employees, but very much depended upon the scale of the federal government when it turns to a policy or a law.

They're spread across the nation, not just in the D.C. area.

And what will the Doge Boys reduction in workforce mean for the contractors?

We can only guess at this point.

More of this tonight.

But, John, think about spending on a federal level at being

pocketed around the country where you might have military, where you might have particular

departments with infrastructure. The thing that will come next beyond the first work within the

agencies and direct cuts within the agencies will be

the contractors. It's safe to say that for every one government employee, there might be two to

three contractors. And the doge boys going after the contracting infrastructure next will

likely be even bigger cuts than what you see at the FedGov level.