Sadly, the government doesn’t work like that. I’m not defending or anything like that because there’s plenty that can be cut.
However, there are a lot of things that are done because of a law or regulation or court case or Congressional desire or whatever. So you need to noodle through that. Plus there are a number of things that must be done which can get lumped with “stuff we want to do” so that it looks like it all has to be done. Plus a lot of agencies take on stuff that maybe they didn’t have to do but now those things have a constituency (including Congress) that will raise heck if it’s stopped.
Read what the Department of Energy does now, as opposed to what the Atomic Energy Commission was initially chartered to do. You’ll be amazed. And that’s one example.
Again, I’m not defending, but the bureaucracy is so entangled in so many things you have to pull all the threads before you can start cutting them.
I’m sure it will get done though.
Obama had a habit of not enforcing laws that he didn’t like.
I admit, I didn’t like it when he did that, because I generally don’t see following the law as “optional”. But that’s how Democrats play the game.
Now President Trump wants to greatly downsize the Executive Branch? But there are laws and/or regulations that “require” certain activities?
So what? Regulations can change easily enough. And (I guess) laws can be ignored. Congress can help by clearing away stumbling blocks. But President Trump can — and should — go full speed ahead with the downsizing. Almost everything the government does is crap. We don’t need it.