Posted on 01/19/2017 6:13:56 AM PST by pabianice
Donald Trump is ready to take an ax to government spending.
Staffers for the Trump transition team have been meeting with career staff at the White House ahead of Friday’s presidential inauguration to outline their plans for shrinking the federal bureaucracy, The Hill has learned.
The changes they propose are dramatic.
The departments of Commerce and Energy would see major reductions in funding, with programs under their jurisdiction either being eliminated or transferred to other agencies. The departments of Transportation, Justice and State would see significant cuts and program eliminations.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be privatized, while the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities would be eliminated entirely.
Overall, the blueprint being used by Trump’s team would reduce federal spending by $10.5 trillion over 10 years.
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There is a problem with that.
All those in the public sector will be looking for work in the private, and bringing their views with them.
That's news to me. Can you provide a reference to any information to support this statement?
I think it’s presumptuous of you to think you know anything about what was discussed in Elaine Chou’s interview.
I think having “worked” for the feds would be a very black mark on one’s resume. Also, if they acted up they can be fired.
I guess you haven’t been paying attention the last eight years. Congress never lifted a finger to stop Obama’s dictatorial reign.
And now here you are, telling all of us how they’re going to tie down Trump and put him in a box.
Hilarious.
Americorps needs to go as does most of the Department of Labor. The EEOC needs to go away.
I've spent plenty of time here reading stories about Obama's alleged "dictatorial reign," but I have yet to come across anything he did that he wasn't authorized to do specifically through powers that were given to the executive branch through Congressional actions.
P.S. -- I can tell you with 100% certainty that Donald Trump is going to have more trouble with Republicans in Congress than Barack Obama ever did.
Elaine Chao is one of the smartest people in DC
You certainly know how to use the correct jargon.
But I am almost certain you understood my points.
The points of hacking money from the NEA (both of them) and NEH are manyfold: it stops paying for propaganda, destroys empire building, allows Trump to focus on the next big thing, lets the Left rant and wear themselves out, sets a precedent so both Dims and GOPE know what to expect from Trump.
Plus the biggie: a large part of the propaganda budget goes to NBC, CBS, ABC for regular TV shows. Whack that, and they no longer justify themselves financially. Whack that, and they have to cut pay to Hollyweird. Whack that, and some of the talent goes to alt-media, ones that took the Hollywood gig to pay rent, but do not support the Left. Whack that, and eyeballs follow the Pizza.
There were rumors (trial balloons?) about moving the Census to report directly to the White House chief of staff (at the time, Rahm Emmanuel), but this did not come to pass.
Some big programs that aren’t Social Security: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae, other student loans.
Some smaller programs that cost more than it looks: any mandatory “green” program (wind and solar raise electricity prices by 10-30% and increasing). Regulations on coal (where coal is used, such as Kentucky, raised/will raise electric rates by 40%, and risk blackouts).
Ending subsidies for college loans will have multiple benefits: many PhDs in useless studies will have to cope with the market economy, less propaganda spread onto young minds, lower rental prices in many urban areas, college loan officers will learn to evaluate risk using math, many young adults will work instead of party/have sex at school. I’m sure I’m missing some more.
We have more sergeants than privates (including private first class) in the U.S. Army. More chiefs than Indians. Took many decades to accomplish; will take time to correct. Could bump wages of privates and corporals who used to be called sergeants. I’m not military, so would rather let military and veterans offer constructive thoughts.
Pay for fewer types of vehicles and weapons. This will save $20-100 billion a year. Use G.I. bill to pay for trade school while cutting back on university money, without breaking current promises. Close up a bunch of overseas bases, although Obama may have already done a lot of that. Stay out of wars less serious than Hitler - that retroactively would have saved $6 trillion over 10-20 years.
Exactly.
geez...
“If we don’t tackle entitlements, we’re not being serious, or credible, or honest.”
If they can cut $10 trillion over 10 years, then that is serious - and it sets up entitlement reform next.
If they clear out non-defense discretionary spending first, in a really unprecedented way, they will gain great credibility to take on entitlements next (if still needed, after growth turns up).
All this bureaucratic crap SHOULD be cut first anyway, before digging into the livelihoods of the working poor and middle class.
The added beauty is that most of this government overgrowth is precisely where the leftists have been digging in, so you can disproportionately prune them out of power when you eliminate the whole activity which draws them - government organizations dedicated to racial identity issues, climate change, income redistribution, etc.
Just defund the left en masse, and cut the government permanently in the first budget - it is the real waste.
Does President Trump realize just how much unemployment he’s going to cause? (/sarc)
Preserved in cubes of clear polyester resin.
Congress doesn't "allow" anything, they propose. Trump can veto a budget and shut down the government.
I’m just applying commonsense.
I agree, but want to share that there is a HUGE part of SSI that is not the what most think about...SSI that are “Disabled”. I know for a fact (due to a past job) that there are those on that program that truly deserve to be on it. I also know that there are so so many that are full of crap. I am serious on this, and can not even imagine the cost savings of an administration that will actually review the files and stop those that are scamming the system. Cleaning this up would, I believe would save an astonishing amount of money.....
MOgirl
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