[stanz]

This admin has cut taxes, increased defense spending and (hopefully) cut bureaucracy. Has increased gov't spending and done zilch about defending the borders.

[HostileTerritory]

cut bureaucracy.

I don't believe they have. I see the same bureaucracy being used for new purposes and sometimes expanded, as with No Child Left Behind, which now has the Department of Education scrutinizing test results from all 50 states.