Union shops on the outside of government downsize all the time, downsize EVERY DAMNED department and be done with it, government has become a BEAST!!! They can buy out people close to retirement, start checking performance evaluations and cut those, then the new comers GO!!!!
Some of them need to be abolished outright. I offer up the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Whatever, and the Social Security Administration for a start.