I thought Trump should have terminated an entire department 10 to 50 thousand useless government leeches , I don’t care which one just to have sent a strong message sending power back to states or whatever. Outside the box. I think he had the mandate to do something like that if he had in first week and it would have been a super strong move to go from there. But rinos and mcmaster particularly cleansed most of political outsiders in quick order.
Glenn Beck had one of his usual Senators, either Mike Lee or Jim Jordan, on his show. The Senator said that it was almost impossible to fire bureaucrats, as they are so well protected under federal law.
I’m thinking that Trump did look at the idea, in his desire to cut down the size of the government and he found that it couldn’t be done, especially with an uncooperative Congress.