What connects the $3.9M Palantir–USDA contract & the White House’s new mandatory app?
👉 The normalization of a govt market for software that turns office attendance into an enforcement system.
👉 The same federal blind spot: Washington adopts tools before Congress sets the rules around their use.
Washington keeps adopting tools that can shape, track or influence the federal workforce before Congress sets clear rules for how those tools may be used.