Trump is coming for the executive branch. Does he know what he’s doing?

The Washington Post ^ | November 24, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. EST | Dan Balz

[E. Pluribus Unum]

President-elect Donald Trump is coming for the executive branch. Eight years ago, he thought he could shake up federal agencies and left after four years with little to show for it. This time, with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy leading the charge, he is talking about even more radical changes. Will he do any better the second time around?

Trump isn’t the first president to try to shrink or reorganize the executive branch, or the first to claim to be leading an assault on waste, fraud and abuse that would deliver significant cost savings and more efficient government. Richard M. Nixon had his Ash Commission. Ronald Reagan had the Grace Commission. Bill Clinton had his National Performance Review, known as “reinventing government,” or “REGO,” led by then-Vice President Al Gore.

Trump, Musk and Ramaswamy have huge ambitions and no humility about what they are undertaking. What they have talked about amounts to a wholesale attack on federal agencies designed to eliminate thousands of regulations, reduce the federal workforce by an order of magnitude that could cripple the delivery of vital services, and effect cost savings that would amount to nearly one-third of the federal budget, or the entire discretionary part of the budget and then some.

All government bureaucracies need occasional overhaul and rejuvenation. Trump’s motivation is more about punishment and retribution. His Cabinet choices point to that. At the Justice Department, as The Washington Post reported, he is prepared to fire the team that worked with special counsel Jack Smith on two indictments of the president-elect. More broadly, he looks to dismantle what he regards as an unresponsive and oppositional administrative state.

Previous attempts to make the government smaller or more efficient have fallen far short of what was promised...

[FreeperCell]

Someone’s not happy.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Just like Twitter/X, fire 80%, then see who applies, see who really wants to work FOR the American people, for the betterment of everyone, regardless of race, creed, color, etc. The larger the government, the smaller the individual.

A huuuuge premium should be put on anyone who has actually worked in the private sector. What A Concept!

[ClearCase_guy]

Trump knows what he’s doing.
And so does the WaPo.
Yuk, yuk, yuk

[heavy metal]

that sucking sound is the draining of the swamp...

[Redleg Duke]

And so it begins, the coordinated attacks on the Trump Administration by the MSM on behest of the DC UniParty, Deep State and Leftists.

[Liz]

NYT reported Trump has built a cadre of advisers who have
spent years planning ways to implement their plans for the country.

Trump also stands to benefit from a court system now tilted more in Mr. Trump’s favor.
Donald Trump and his administration may well be better prepared this time around.

[chuck allen]

Begins???

Where you been the last 8 years?

[Big Red Badger]

Go Scorched Earth Trump!

[joethedrummer]

“..coming for the executive branch”???

As though the executive branch is owned by deep state democrats…

No, he was ELECTED to be the HEAD of the executive branch - by the citizens of the country!

All these idiots who have this warped sense of our government should be shipped out.

[XRdsRev]

“Just like Twitter/X, fire 80%,”

Yeah let’s see how well things go when basically all the civilians in the Department of Defense are gone. You know the people who actually design, configure, test, procure, store, distribute, repair and manage everything the military uses. The Russians and Chinese love your thinking !!!

[TheDon]

When he pulls out a chain saw, we’ll know.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Yeah he has to meet the very high bar for intelligence set by Biden and Camila.

[cowboyusa]

Hopefully, giving the left the reckoning they long deserve.

[ChessExpert]

I think Washington D.C. has never experienced a recession.

[WildHighlander57]

👍👍👍👍👍

[jimpick]

Maybe if a bunch of people were fired in the DOD we could have a plane that pilots don’t eject out of because the oxygen system fails. Or maybe we could get something designed the first time without having huge cost overruns.

The DOD is not perfect and needs to be repaired.

[BobL]

“Trump is coming for the executive branch. Does he know what he’s doing?”
“The Washington Post, November 24, 2024, Dan Balz”

Dan Balz is about to find out what a man with REAL BALZ can do in the White House to crash the Deep State.

[Colt1851Navy]

The Washington Compost, at least they might be more accurate than the New York Times....so what?

[ProgressingAmerica]

Trump is coming for the executive branch. Does he know what he’s doing? Has he ever been President before?

(Couldn't help that last part)