“First Lady Melania Trump gave the final order to fell the so-called Jackson Magnolia, which the Democratic seventh president planted in memory of his late wife, Rachel, following the divisive 1828 election that Jackson blamed for her death, the station reported.
The FLOTUS made the decision following a recommendation from the US National Arboretum, which found “the overall architecture and structure of the tree is greatly compromised and the tree is completely dependent on the artificial support.”
https://nypost.com/2017/12/26/white-house-to-cut-down-200-year-old-tree/
That description of the rotting tree that should have been taken down years ago, could be used to describe any number of departments, programs, and agencies, that need a stem to stern review, and apply Demming, Kaizen, Six Sigma etc too, if not out right cutting them down to the ground with a chain saw and digging out the roots.
A greater irony is that FLOTUS is doing it and that she has more sense than all the FLOTUS's to make the hard call, rather than like everyone else that kicked the can down the road, which is what their Hubbies did on Iran, the Middle East, the Norks, etc etc etc.....
Common Sense get-er-done-ism, with a team of experts like we have never seen before on top of their game that are exquisite turn around experts and are fixing things for free. It is not just PDJT and the Cabinet of megga-sharks, it is now FLOTUS too!