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| Trump Slashes Federal Bureaucracy, ‘Morale Has Never Been Lower' |
| 2018-01-13 |
| h/t Instapundit [DailyWire] The Environmental Protection Agency is on track to slash 47% of its total staff by the end of President Trump’s first term, according to a report in the Washington Examiner. After just one year, EPA chief Scott Pruitt has reduced his staff to levels unseen since the Reagan administration. If just those federal employees set to retire by 2021 do indeed leave, Pruitt will have cut more than 7,000 bureaucrats. ...With the exception of Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, and Interior, all Cabinet departments by September had fewer permanent staff than the day Trump took office. In addition, Trump’s proposed spending cuts triggered a spending slowdown across agencies despite the absence of a 2017 budget from Congress. ...Before his death in 2016, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia observed that unaccountable, overgrown executive agencies posed the greatest threat to American liberty. If President Trump can reduce bureaucracy to Reagan era levels within a year, Americans might hope to press on to Coolidge era numbers by his second term. For an administration that promises to make America great again, at least it’s a good start. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #14 Gee, I wonder if they’re on LinkedIn? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-01-13 22:07 |
| #13 test |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-01-13 19:56 |
| #12 oops, damn fingers today - Circa 1970, not 1940. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-01-13 18:17 |
| #11 Just remember they had no problem 'downsizing' the military by the tens of thousands. Circa 1940 - A million plus man Army. Circa 1993 - 750,000, Today sub 500,000. What missions demands/commitments have been reduced? Now, see if the other bureaucracies can do the same. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-01-13 18:16 |
| #10 This will be a painful transition for many, but it is necessary for the survival of the nation. It is called "culling the herd." |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2018-01-13 14:45 |
| #9 Is Solyndra hiring? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2018-01-13 13:16 |
| #8 And what about Deepwater Horizon? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-01-13 12:58 |
| #7 No more releases of toxic chemicals from abandoned mines into the rivers of Colorado? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-01-13 12:56 |
| #6 Well, it's only the "phony baloney" jobs that are being axed right now. |
| Posted by: Roth LaDoad 2018-01-13 12:24 |
| #5 ...nah, they still have H1Bs to cover that. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-01-13 09:47 |
| #4 The really fun part? Unless these hacks go to an equivalent state bureaucracy, they're in for a very, very tough time trying to find work (real work, that is) Very true, IT systems engineer being one of the possible exceptions. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-01-13 09:02 |
| #3 The really fun part? Unless these hacks go to an equivalent state bureaucracy, they're in for a very, very tough time trying to find work (real work, that is) in the dreaded private sector. Believe me, I know - it may have been the most difficult thing I did professionally. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-01-13 08:58 |
| #2 Well it's a start. Faster Please. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2018-01-13 07:40 |
| #1 So sad. Not enough staff left over to go fuc& with 85 year old farmers by trying to take over the use of their land because the EPA says the farmers have "changed" how they use their land because they have to leave their fields to lay fallow every now and then. Burn in he77. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-01-13 05:02 |