Any plan that's going to cost bureaucrats their jobs will never pass. You can't get rid of Federal employees!
Oh yes you can. Reagan did.
Just think of how Speaker Gingrich was pilloried when he suggested trimming certain costly administrative agencies that fell within the purview of the federal government.
I still remember how the public employee unions-flush with cash from compulsory union dues-were able to successfully portray his proposal to reform the Health Care Financing Administration as an all-out assault on the Medicare program.