Posted on 06/15/2017 2:49:02 PM PDT by ColdOne
The Trump administration announced on Thursday it would be eliminating an obscure rule requiring federal agencies to provide updates on how they will prepare for a bug that infected computers in 2000.
In addition to eliminating the Y2K bug rule, agencies will also be eradicating dozens of other paperwork requirements. For example, the Pentagon will not have to file a report each time a small business vendor is paid, which consumes approximately 1,200 man hours, according to Bloomberg.
"We're looking for stuff everyone agrees is a complete waste of time," Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told reporters at the White House.
President Donald Trump has kept his campaign promise of pushing deregulation, signing "more laws rolling back his predecessor's regulations than the combined total of the three previous presidents since the process was established by the 1999 Congressional Review Act," Bloomberg reports.
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I love submitting time on two different payroll systems every two weeks.
Federal judge striking this one down in 3...2...1...
This is Administrative. Even if Federal employees love their make-work, I don’t see how there is Judiciary remedy. Trump is CEO of the Administration. Does the Judicial Branch involve itself in this?
Besides, Y2K???? This is a targeted excision, since it’s obviously outdated and moot.
Years ago I worked for a large corporation in KC. Had to file a monthly report for “management guidance” which went to 25 people in upper management all over the U.S. The last two lines of the report had numbers which had to be calculated by hand and took my secretary and I three long days to compute. So one month I decided to do the computations but not put the results on the report. No one asked about the missing numbers so after three months we quit even doing the computations. Retained responsibility for submission of the report for five years after that and absolutely no one ever asked.
Even though something in government is outdated doesn’t mean anything. No one ever looks at efficiency and the true use of data in the government. IMO, it’s just one of the reasons they have gotten so big and redundant.
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