[randita]

“The most immediate worry is: How are we going to shrink government?” Dougan said. “Are we going to lay people off? Eliminate whole agencies or do it through attrition?”

Yes to all the above.

[Cobra64]

Trump needs to set a precedent quickly: Eliminate Dept. of Education and EPA immediately on January 21.

[Gumdrop]

When I was young, education was part of a bureau called HEW {Health, Education and Welfare]. LBJ decided to give the liberals in education their own bureau.

It was a major mistake and ought to be reversed. All bureaucrats do is look for ways to make themselves look productive. How? By making new regulations and mandating new liberal topics into the curriculum. A pox on their houses.

[arthurus]

Eliminate whole agencies. All of them.Pay all the fired employees two months salary for severance. give the vested ones their retirement but eliminate their jobs and the Agencies except for the first four Departments- War, Treasury, State, Attorney General.