The White House's budget calls for about $3 trillion in cuts to domestic government programs over the next 10 years.
Proposed cuts to redundant programs and unnecessary layers of bureaucracy are more likely to see the light of day than an aggressive provision to cut 2 percent of nondefense discretionary spending every year for a decade, or a proposed 30 percent cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as the food stamp program.
The same goes for the Department of Education's plan to consolidate 13 overlapping programs saving $1.8 billion, or the Commerce Department's proposal to eliminate the Economic Development Administration, which duplicates other federal grant programs.
Even the most duplicative program and redundant agency gives a member of Congress another means of funneling federal aid to constituents or to claim credit for dealing with a pressing societal problem.
Starting in the 1960s, many interest groups demanded the creation of new agencies and programs to deal with their specific concerns.
The administration's budget request includes $10 million for a Department of Housing and Urban Development program called the Jobs Plus Initiative, which is meant to "Develop locally based, job-driven approaches to increase earnings and financial literacy for residents of public housing."
These overlapping programs and agencies not only cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars, they prioritize small, organized constituencies over the broad public interest.
http://dailysignal.com/2018/02/15/trumps-2019-budget-takes-steps-to-modernize-and-streamline-executive-branch/
Proposed cuts to redundant programs and unnecessary layers of bureaucracy are more likely to see the light of day than an aggressive provision to cut 2 percent of nondefense discretionary spending every year for a decade, or a proposed 30 percent cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as the food stamp program.
The same goes for the Department of Education's plan to consolidate 13 overlapping programs saving $1.8 billion, or the Commerce Department's proposal to eliminate the Economic Development Administration, which duplicates other federal grant programs.
Even the most duplicative program and redundant agency gives a member of Congress another means of funneling federal aid to constituents or to claim credit for dealing with a pressing societal problem.
Starting in the 1960s, many interest groups demanded the creation of new agencies and programs to deal with their specific concerns.
The administration's budget request includes $10 million for a Department of Housing and Urban Development program called the Jobs Plus Initiative, which is meant to "Develop locally based, job-driven approaches to increase earnings and financial literacy for residents of public housing."
These overlapping programs and agencies not only cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars, they prioritize small, organized constituencies over the broad public interest.
http://dailysignal.com/2018/02/15/trumps-2019-budget-takes-steps-to-modernize-and-streamline-executive-branch/
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