Yes, get rid of half of the bloated bureaucracies and the typical American wouldn't notice the difference. That would save a lot. Hope Trump is looking at this. Few of these various Departments of . . . and other bureaucracies existed in 1946 or 1962 for that matter. Why do we need them now?
Every now and then I read about some government agency and wonder what they do. What does that Consumer Protection outfit really do? Do we really need it? Take each one and review the cost efficacy/rate of return/what do they do analysis. I bet most of them could be cut in half.
I really hope Trump, sometime in his Presidency, does a private sector analysis of each agency. Would he fire half of the people? Tighten their budgets?
And then there's all this phony Grant business. Getting a grant to study you name it esoterica.
Go Trump! Slash and Burn!
You could fire every USG worker and the effect would be minimal. There is very little discretionary spending compared to the overall budget, the majority of federal spending is entitlements and interest on the debt. All must spends, all programs with loud self-interested (with perfectly legitimate reasons to be so!) constituencies.