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Trump Orders Government to Stop Work on Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later
[BLOOMBERG] Seventeen years after the Year 2000 bug came and went, the federal government will finally stop preparing for it.

The Trump administration announced Thursday that it would eliminate dozens of paperwork requirements for federal agencies, including an obscure rule that requires them to continue providing updates on their preparedness for a bug that afflicted some computers at the turn of the century. As another example, the Pentagon will be freed from a requirement that it file a report every time a small business vendor is paid, a task that consumed some 1,200 man-hours every year.

"We’re looking for stuff everyone agrees is a complete waste of time," Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told news hounds at the White House. He likened the move to the government "cleaning out our closets."

Deregulation is a major ambition of President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s agenda; as one example, he has signed more laws rolling back his predecessor’s regulations than the combined total of the three previous presidents since the process was established by the 1999 Congressional Review Act.
To be fair, between his predecessor's phone & pen and his encouragement of the bureaucratic drive to write regulations, a great many more regulations than usual were written in the past eight years. It's a proper Augean stables, needing a Niagara Falls to hose out.
Seven of the more than 50 paperwork requirements the White House eliminated on Thursday dealt with the Y2K bug, according to a memo OMB released. Officials at the agency estimate the changes could save tens of thousands of man-hours across the federal government.

DHS Shuts Down Anti-Deportation Office

[Breitbart] President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security has deep-sixed an Obama-era program to have 21 taxpayer-funded agency officials cooperate with anti-deportation, pro-amnesty groups.
Posted by: Fred 2017-06-16
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