Startup Pitches Government Efficiency
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Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program
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Ramp sells credit cards and artificial intelligence software for businesses to analyze spending.
The startup is backed by some of the most powerful figures in Silicon Valley .
The company is eying a piece of the government's $700 billion internal expense card program, known as SmartPay .
Ramp has had at least four private meetings with the president's appointees at the General Services Administration .
GSA will decide by year's end whether to extend the SmartPay contract.
GSA 's new leaders are convinced SmartPay is entirely broken, sources say.
But GOP and Democratic budget experts, as well as former GSA officials, describe that view as ill-informed.
SmartPay provides Visa and Mastercard charge cards to government employees.
Ramp has never had a client like the federal government.
The only public-sector partner listed on its webpage is a charter school network in Nashville .
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