My brother was once complaining about government waste.
I said “would you like to see what power the government could exercise if it effectively and efficiently spent a trillion dollars a year rather than wasting most of it?”
Never heard anything about government waste from him again.
I figure, though, that you could cut 1/3 (more?) of government, and no one would ever know the difference. Really, how many "Third Assistant Secretaries to the Vice-Deputy Czar of the Interior" do we need?
Unfortunately, the system is such that cuts would be teachers (not useless admins)....police+fire (not useless bureaucrats) and so on.