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Time is long overdue to shutdown useless government departments and agencies, fire their staffs (no rehiring by other government agencies or departments).
To go away list: EPA, Dept of Education, Commerce, Agriculture, Surgeon General.
These are for starters.
Default: if you cannot kill the useless department or agency, (1) cut all by a 25% reduction in force and (2) give them something useful to do like a complete cost-benefit review of all regulations with a minimum reduction of 50 percent of standing regs.
During the review process, NO new rules or regulations will be permitted. After the review is over, new rules or regs will be issued with a 5 year sunset provision that requires congressional approval and president's signature to implement for another 5 years.

“Fire their staffs”.
What will the people who are fired do? They will be out of work and are more likely than not unemployable in the public sector. I know there are some good ones but they will have to bite the bullet just like we do when we lose a job. Govt.
employment should not be guaranteed for a lifetime.

"To go away list: EPA, Dept of Education, Commerce, Agriculture, Surgeon General."

THE only one I would keep is Commerce at a smaller size. It would help Trump with his labor dealings with other Nations.

Surgeon General? Why does that position even exist? Between the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), that should be reduced and the Center for Disease Control (CDC), what's the point of some guy/gal running around in a quasi-military uniform with no power and making a speech on occasion?

The EPA needs to be cut back to almost non-existence. Leave a shell to make the greenies happy.

The Department of Education should be entirely abolished. It is not the function of Fedgov to dictate to State and local schools.

Don't know much about the Department of Agriculture, but knowing Fedgov intrusion in all matters, sure it could be cut back if not eliminated. Or, as I suggested elsewhere, it is absorbed into the Department of the Interior. When you merge different entities, downsizing always occurs.

My biggest conundrum is with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It's another bloated bureaucracy that came out of the 911 attacks and hysteria about doing something. That said, I believe that it has been beneficial in making all the LE agencies share intel and has thwarted many terrorist attacks...obviously not all. I think it could be downsized and still work.