Posted on 01/18/2017 6:42:41 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump plans to hit the ground running when he takes office on Friday, assigning "landing teams" to coordinate with federal agencies to cut some department budgets by as much as 10% while slashing 20% from the federal workforce.
The cuts would target discretionary spending, not mandated programs such as Medicare or Social Security, the sources said.
The spending reductions are expected to be used to help pay for Trump's plan to boost the Pentagon's budget, tax cuts and some pet projects, potentially including the anti-immigration wall on the nation's southern border.
The teams also are looking at staffing cuts over four years through attrition, a hiring freeze and reorganization.
The plan is winning cheers in conservative, anti-tax and anti-spending corners in Washington that have long sought massive cuts in the bureaucracy.
Presidents rarely cut spending, choosing freezes instead. In the meantime, federal spending has reached historic levels. Trump has picked a budget hawk, Rep. Mick Mulvaney, to head the Office of Management and Budget, a clear sign that spending cuts are a top priority.
Still, Trump is likely to face a wall of opposition from Democrats and federal unions who consider much of the federal workforce on their side.
Many presidents have entered office with grand plans to cut the budget, only to see Congress fail to follow through. But perhaps more than any other recent president, Donald Trump enters the White House with a clear mandate to "drain the swamp." And a primal thrust of that effort will be to shrink the size of government.
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Good grief! We can only hope.
Add any one with start date effective 1/1/2009 to RIF list Problem solved. Unions want to do it by seniority, well that’s the way it goes
“Do it the GE way: require managers to rank their staff from top to bottom, no ties. Then RIF the bottom 10%.”
Management not staff is the problem.
Doesn’t go far enough for my liking. But still, a good start.
WOOOHOOOO PE Donald J. Trump. Thank you, sir.
Cut, cut, cut.
It’s a start but hopefully the first of a wholesale cleansing. Death by a thousand cuts
That's a good start.
Should cut the deficit by 35% and raise the unemployment by 50%, since 80% of the fired goldbricks didn't produce any useful work, and raise the unemployment by 50% followed by permanent disability by the same amount.
A great start, actually.
Until the fraudulent disabled are identified, fined and jailed.
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