Ex-KKR and Moelis Banker Wooed by Consultants Who Fear DOGE Cuts

Executives at the US’s biggest management consulting firms are trying to shield tens of billions of dollars in federal contracts from scorched-earth spending cuts by the Trump administration.

One of their first moves: Getting a meeting with the former private equity executive pivotal in deciding what government business survives.

Josh Gruenbaum, 39, who previously worked at KKR & Co. Inc. and investment bank Moelis & Co., has been tapped by President Donald Trumpfor the top procurement role in the General Services Administration, normally a backwater appointment that’s been given new political heft amid Elon Musk’s cost-cutting ...