Cog wrote:All of the various cabinet secretaries have been tasked to come up with ways to cut their budgets and personnel. I thought this was common knowledge and its certainly something Trump campaigned on. Cutting off the heads of the hydra takes time but its worth the effort.
I would go further than Trump and request Congress change civil service rules so that federal employees can be fired at will for any reason or no reason at all. That would put them in line with how the private sector works.
Basically you are saying outlaw civil service unions. Not that I am opposed to that, you want to feed at taxpayer funded trows you should take the risk that non preformance has consequences. On the other hand President Trump got elected by appealing to working class voters, a fair percentage of whom still work in Union Shop conditions. Trying to destroy civil service unions without laying a lot of groundwork could backfire with the working class voters.