A couple tidbits plucked from a story about the twilight of Jared Kushner’s political career.

Congress appears to be on the verge of creating a $500 million fund to help agencies modernize outdated information technology systems, some of which are at least 40 years old.

Sounds good, right? But wait because…

The White House has failed to name chief information officers for nine major agencies, including Defense, Treasury and Homeland Security. Even the federal chief information officer is only an acting official, and the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy is largely a ghost town.

Starve the beast 2.0, maybe?