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.
  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

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

  • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

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

    That’s the difference.

      • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM
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        2 months 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
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        2 months 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?