When you have bad media because of your actions, polishing the communication is only possible after an earnest effort to do better.
Which is going to be difficult without the knowledge of the digital teams they fired (and which can show results and savings as per the article).
The quote at the end sums it up nicely:
> “Anyone can make something look nice,” the employee said. But following the correct protocols to ensure government systems don’t break “is a lot more complicated. And I don’t think they care about it at all.”
When Al Gore headed up DOGE (NPR - National Partnership for Reinventing Government) they spent considerable time working with department heads and members of Congress in doing their analysis and making their recommendations. Congress made their cuts in the next budget cycle. It resulted in 377,000 federal employees being let go and two years of budget surpluses. No chaos, no circus, just competence.
Republicans are acting like this has never been done before, it has. They had a successful blueprint. They had a majority in Congress that would have went along with anything that was even remotely reasonable. Their gross incompetence and ignorance of prior art has resulted in chaos.