Trump’s government reform is all muscle, no message

Trump’s government reform is all muscle, no message

GUEST COMMENTARY: The administration is right to focus on right-sizing and reprioritizing the federal government to allow for a freer, healthier nation. However, the long-term success of limited, effective government, like the one our founders envisioned 250 years ago, will…

Memo to Dept. of Government Efficiency: Reform needs deadlines. Without them significant change won't occur — The South Dakota Standard

Tackling inefficiencies in the operations of federal agencies is a worthy goal. To date, the current Trump administration has issued approximately 150 Executive Orders, a number of which are directed at government inefficiencies.However, these particular steps toward agency reform will not work. The dominant strategy seems to be ordering indiscriminate staff firings and staffing amputations, a severe political prescription for fixing operational…

CSotD: The Spin Cycle

Margulies starts the ball rolling with an observation which you should hold in mind throughout the rest of what is to come. First of all, he’s right. Trump reminds me of a wisecrack directed at Jesse Jackson some years ago by Detroit Mayor Coleman Young: “Jesse’s never run anything but his mouth.” Ditto, the difference […]