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President Trump plans to unveil a new White House office on Monday with sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and fulfill key campaign promises — such as reforming care for veterans and fighting opioid addiction — by harvesting ideas from the business world and, potentially, privatizing some government functions. The White House Office of American Innovation, to be led by Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, will operate as its own nimble power center within the West Wing and will report directly to Trump. Viewed internally as a SWAT team of strategic consultants, the office will be...

By The snarky Left demands the new conservative Congress be specific about the defunding and cuts they want to accomplish to start cleaning up the mess the Democrats have caused. Because liberals know so little about genuine economic theory (as opposed to the feel good dribble taught in so many college classrooms), they believe that if THEY can’t think of programs to defund they don’t exist. Here are a few programs that can be cut or completely defunded without the slightest ripple being felt by the average American. The Western Area Power Administration was established on Dec 21, 1977 and...

AUSTIN - The "Blue Screen of Death" -- that's what some state employees called the blank computer screen that served as the first notice that they were no longer state employees. "They were sitting there working at their computers, and then -- boom -- the network people locked them out," said Marcus Chase, a producer of educational videos who was one of about 150 Texas Education Agency employees to get a pink slip in recent weeks. "It was disrespectful how it went down." An estimated 5,000 to 10,000 state workers have lost their jobs or will lose them soon as...