Sam Corcos

🏦 CIO @ustreasury
🕺 Co-founder, Board Member @levels
📚 Reader of books ( Gamer of boards

[Sam Corcos @SamCorcos]

@ClonanBradley The challenge is defining what it means to be "held to an SLA". What's the consequence if you miss it?

Cutting funding as a consequence of missing an SLA would just degrade performance even more. It doesn’t create consequences for the people (or vendors) who failed.

The hard part is designing accountability into systems built to avoid it at all costs... The government doesn't work like a private company.

We've started implementing (internal) SLAs and it's been effective, but it's been like pulling teeth. It's not part of the culture.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

It’s been almost two months since President Trump took the bold step of officially forming the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud.

We’ve already uncovered tens of billions of dollars in defrauded taxpayer money, prosecuted dozens of fraudsters, and stopped billions in suspicious payments. And we’re just getting started.

So why has it taken the federal government until now to finally tackle fraud? Because Andrew Ferguson and I are taking a new approach. Here’s how.

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

The palisades fire being an act of left wing terrorism is not being discussed nearly enough.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Overheard in Silicon Valley: "Rebranding to 'forward deployed engineer' from 'consultant' one of the great all time recruiting whammies."

[Sam Corcos @SamCorcos]

This is a bigger deal than it may sound. We’ve lost candidates because of this Kafkaesque process. Anyone who’s worked in federal hiring knows how much unnecessary friction it created. Glad to see it changed 💪

[Scott Kupor @skupor]

The dance of federal hiring: We at @USOPM have heard that some hiring managers feel obligated to make job offers at "Step 1," the lowest comp level for a particular job grade (or "GS" level), even when the candidate's skills merit a higher Step. Then, the hiring manager instructs the candidate to reject that initial offer, after which they will make a new offer at the appropriate Step. We don't think that is an efficient hiring process - for agencies or for candidates. So today we issued guidance to effect a final curtain call on this dance!

[Sam Corcos @SamCorcos]

I’ve already recruited over 100 people from @USTechForce 🇺🇸 It’s likely the strongest pool of technical talent ever assembled in government.

2026 is going to be a big year for cybersecurity. If you want to work on high-impact cyber problems, this is where you should apply 💪

[Scott Kupor @skupor]

Cybersecurity is mission-critical to maintaining public trust. Through @USTechForce, we’re recruiting top talent to protect federal systems and tackle real-world challenges at scale. https://t.co/Nlg6LUhNgg

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Fraudsters literally looted $250-500 BILLION a year from taxpayers for years, now changes are being made to prevent this fraud:
- Treasury is now going after the banks
- Whistleblowers can make 30% for exposing fraud
- Auto dealers will be tracked down

END ALL THE FRAUD.

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

CEOs should code

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

President Donald J. Trump just signed an Executive Order creating the Task Force to ELIMINATE Fraud.

Chaired by @VP Vance, this task force will crack down on fraud, close loopholes, and make sure benefits go ONLY to eligible Americans.

Promises Made. Promises Kept. 🇺🇸

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

@GovPressOffice You do realize I’m trying to help America eliminate fraud and waste right? No need to try and make me look like the bad guy for exposing fraud.

People are over it. Start working for the people and not against them.

[Edward Coristine @as400495]

Just added 9 more. Drugs for cholesterol, migraines, arthritis, asthma, and flu are now offered at huge discounts!

[Kelly Loeffler @SBA_Kelly]

Before this Admin, the 8(a) Program was known as an easy target – and it was abused by shady firms who won federal contracts but passed work off to other, larger firms for a kickback.

To root out those bad actors, we asked all 4,300 8(a) firms to submit 3 years’ worth of financial documents for review. And today, we took action to fully terminate over 620 who refused to comply.

Any business that refuses to show us their books will not be allowed to do business with the federal government.

https://t.co/O4Wt5ykWkJ

[Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein]

It's hard to imagine a more dishonest graph than this one by the Guardian claiming China is bringing people out of poverty while the US is not.

The US poverty rate has been so low for >30 years that it wouldn't even show up on the China graph if it had been plotted to scale!

[Joe Gebbia @jgebbia]

Processed food kills. Eat real food 🥩🥦🥛

[Kelly Loeffler @SBA_Kelly]

Today, SBA suspended 1,091 firms from the 8(a) Program – about a QUARTER of total program participants – after they refused to turn over basic financial documentation for our review. In total, the suspended firms received about $5 billion from the federal government from 2021-2024.

We pledged last month that every contractor would be required to PROVE that they aren't running one of the pass-through schemes or shell companies that gamed the system after the Biden Admin expanded the 8(a) Program to advance its DEI agenda.

Now we’re taking immediate action with one simple principle: if you’ve got something to hide, you shouldn’t be doing business with the federal government.

https://t.co/L1lMLIN2ZZ

[DrOzCMS @DrOzCMS]

L.A. County has become an epicenter for health care fraud in America. Criminals have corrupted the system so much that fraud is now almost expected. President Trump has made it clear: we will not tolerate the patient harm or taxpayer funded theft any longer. More to come.

[Sam Corcos @SamCorcos]

@Austen @Austen The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a good one.

[Sam Corcos @SamCorcos]

@JayElston2 @JWhite75297 The data shows that they are strongly correlated.

[Sam Corcos @SamCorcos]

We're hiring more engineers at Treasury 🇺🇸

Work directly with me on the highest impact projects across Treasury, IRS, and more.

💰 Up to $195k/year
🧠 Engineer AI systems at federal scale
🏡 Telework eligible, location flexible

Apply here 👉 https://t.co/gOzvfsICUY

Make sure you submit the required supplemental material.

DM me if you have questions!

[Sam Corcos @SamCorcos]

@SantiagoPliego @JoshuaSteinman @boardisfun These might be a stretch at 6yo, but I'd try:

1. Ticket to Ride
2. Kingdomino
3. Splendor Kids (and maybe normal Spendor, but could be too much math for 6yo)
4. Forbidden Island

Worst-case, they're too complex and you can play them in a couple years.

[Sam Corcos @SamCorcos]

@LisaTho26849367 @Skypadusa Depends on if that mechanical engineer can code. We're doing software development.