“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. “
And most of that will be taking money away from filling open positions. What needs to be added to that is an immediate 10% cut in budget to every department and that includes the military. They will have to draft their plan to weed out the corruption in the contract game and payment to companies that do not bring in projects on time and on budget.
Actually, due to baseline budgeting, the actual “reduction” would likely come in at 6%.
Trump uses the government to tear itself apart, then cuts it in half.