Trump Wants to Borrow Tech Workers from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft: Report

This isn't a "report", it's a political opinion piece. No matter your views on Trump's administration, there's (from my count) 2-3 sentences total giving a slightly expanded version of the title of the article, along with a link to WaPo for the actual "report. The rest is just the authors political opinions.

Save yourself time, and deny them clicks. Not worth clicking through. Nothing to see here. If you actually care about the issue, use this link instead that actually talks about the issue: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/10/22/white-h...

The OP should modify their link to this.

There are plenty of positions in the federal government where you are performing a needed public service and improving the lives of your fellow citizens, while still "working" for Trump in that he's technically at the top of the chain of command. Comparing devs working on healthcare.gov to Nazis on trial is absurd and offensive.

What's more interesting is whether there's precedent for this. I guess conscription? If we had a "cyber war" with China and needed security experts, would we be able to draft workers from Google and other big corps and then return them in a few years? I would think so but I'm not sure.

Why can't the government just compete with a competitive wage?