Wherein, to save $100M, we pay much more to a private company[1], and in the process sidestep the question of a federal ID database by instead selling it out to a private vendor.

I can't wait to hear when they get hacked, and they have to give out free ID monitoring for a year to make up for it.

[1] VA alone pays $12M/year: https://www.fedhealthit.com/2019/05/va-awards-62m-task-for-i...