Trump and Musk aren't the first to make deep cuts. Clinton-era Reinventing Government saved billions
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When Bill Clinton came to Washington as president, his Democratic administration used corporate know-how and the new internet to streamline the federal bureaucracy as part of the “Reinventing Government” push.
  • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    But the Reinventing Government project was nearly the opposite of the abrupt, chaotic Musk effort.

    Hmm go with a scalpel like Billie or hmmm Choices…Let’s use a war axe I got from wish!

  • jmcs
    8·
    9 hours ago

    Everyone, please just block the troll. That’s what I’m doing immediately after posting this comment.

  • horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world
    24·
    13 hours ago

    But the Reinventing Government project was nearly the opposite of the abrupt, chaotic Musk effort, say those who ran it or watched it unfold. It was authorized by bipartisan congressional legislation, worked slowly over several years to identify inefficiencies and involved federal workers in re-envisioning their jobs.

    You read the whole article?

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    13 hours ago

    Trump isn’t making cuts.

    Presidents don’t get to cut funding. He’s stealing your money.

  • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    13 hours ago

    Ok, but did Clinton do this in the dumbest fucking way possible?

    That’s the difference.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM
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      51 minutes ago

      That’s actually the point of the article. Just a bad headline from the editor.

      But the Reinventing Government project was nearly the opposite of the abrupt, chaotic Musk effort, say those who ran it or watched it unfold. It was authorized by bipartisan congressional legislation, worked slowly over several years to identify inefficiencies and involved federal workers in re-envisioning their jobs.

      “There was a tremendous effort put into understanding what should happen and what should change,” said Max Stier, president of the Partnership for Public Service, which seeks to improve the federal workforce. “What is happening now is actually taking us backwards.”

      • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM
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        47 minutes ago

        Then why did you post this?

        Those familiar with the Clinton-era Reinventing Government push say it holds lessons for both how to remake the federal bureaucracy and the comparatively meager savings that can be achieved from such an effort.

        “We did it without a constitutional crisis,” said Elaine Kamarck, who ran Reinventing Government as a senior Gore adviser in the 1990s. “Unlike these people, we didn’t think there were vast trillions in efficiencies. … Their mandate is only to cut. Our was: Works better, costs less.”

        “It requires speaking out. It requires saying, ‘That violates the law, that violates the authorities of the executive,’” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska.

      • Gimpydude@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        20·
        13 hours ago

        Are you actually serious? You like the utter chaos that’s happening, the loss of institutional knowledge? The harm that this is causing people?

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
    161·
    13 hours ago

    This is the same Republicans that kept Clinton mired in impeachment hearings for a blowjob ?

    Now they are using him as a role model.