This is an old conservative trick: 1) defund public services 2) divert blame for the negative results on an ‘enemy class’ of citizen who are abusing and breaking public services 3) distract with a witch-hunt for these enemies;

In the 80s the enemies were “welfare queens”, now they’re immigrants.

Or even more basically:

• what’s good for business is generally not what’s good for society.

lol wut? Because cloud data storage isn’t a thing any more? Because giving money and data to foreign companies is awesome? What do you know that the rest of the world doesn’t?

Even if they only ever hosted for the fed gov, this would still be a worthwhile project, if only to stop spending that money abroad.

Nah, they got kompromat on her. Bribery will get you some baubles but it’s too voluntary and you can always get outbid. You gotta get coercive if you really want to own someone’s soul.