Trump budget expected to seek historic contraction of federal workforce

WaPo ^ | Damian Paletta

[RoosterRedux]

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[TakebackGOP]

Drain the swamp.

[Cobra64]

Good. Gut the government 25% this year, another 30% next year, and 10% every year thereafter.

[VRWCarea51]

1.8% cut is draconian? Only in Washington D.C.

[central_va]

All he has to do is get rid of all the federal employee unions. Also allow direct hiring of contractors and stop the third party non sense. That would solve 98% of the problems without the political fallout.

[BuddhaBrown]

Historic maybe.

But not significantly effective until whole cabinet level departments start being axed.

Education, HUD, Labor, etc.

Libs and media are going to squawk either way, just get to it.

[RetiredArmy]

Sounds like a FedGov RIF is coming.

[EagleUSA]

Yeah, 1.8% is a joke. So much needs to be cut WAAYYYY back...like cleaning at the IRS, EPA, etc. So much more. All of the useless, liberal bureaucracy that Obama created and inflated.

[Altura Ct.]

Go Trump!

Long past due...

[Nicojones]

Exactly. At minimum, get rid of executive order 13522, which gives “pre decisional” authority to the federal unions for most managerial decisions. Here is the key excerpt - “ allow employees and their union representatives to have pre-decisional involvement in all workplace matters to the fullest extent practicable, without regard to whether those matters are negotiable subjects of bargaining under 5 U.S.C. 7106” https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13522

This obama executive order pretty much gave the unions control of federal agencies. Why hasn’t Trump rescinded it yet?

[Gaffer]

When DC doesn’t get even its projected INCREASE, they call it ‘draconian.’

That word, whoever and whichever effing ghoul thought it up, should have trademarked it or something. These a$$holes use it any time a Republican tries to control costs.

I doubt they even know the origin of the word and got it from some dame game they were playing on the computer pretending to be working.

[lodi90]

Proposed budget. Let’s see what it looks like after the beltway GOP get done with it. If Ryancare is any indication President Trump won’t be “draining the swamp” much.

[txrefugee]

He should reduces it by at least 50% in the next two years. Federal employees should not be paid cushy salaries to do worthless jobs that hinder the freedom of American citizens. There certainly isn’t enough work to do if hundreds are plugged into porn sites during the work day. Cut the waste, Mr. President!

[Steve_Seattle]

"1.8% cut is draconian? Only in Washington D.C."

I spent most of my career in local government, and during the financial crisis of 2007-2009 the city (Seattle) was able to accommodate similar reductions through retirements alone. The remaining staff easily picked up the slack. I would guess that targeted reductions of 3-5% (or more) could be accomplished without any impairment of vital programs. But even holding the workforce at the current level would be a step in the right direction, as opposing to increasing the workforce every year.

[Enlightened1]

Go President Trump!

[Sam Clements]

Best news ever.

I am a small business owner subjected to 8 years of misery under our most despotic and vindictive president ever. Now, under our new president we are experiencing our greatest month ever in only his second full month in office. Let the Fed workers experience what the rest of us did. Get a real job.

[fruser1]

Feds should only be 5% GDP with state and local making up another 5%.

2016 spending over gdp in 2016 was 19%.

[Cementjungle]

He is supposed to sign an executive order today to reorganize the executive department. This isn’t the first many presidents have signed similar orders but it’ll be interesting to see what this one is.

[KosmicKitty]

One of the reasons why I voted for him. Someone has to cut the fat