Trump Orders Review of Government Structure to Cut Size, Cost

  • President set to propose budget that would impose major cuts
  • Past efforts to reorganize federal agencies got modest results
Photographer: Aaron P. Bernstein/Bloomberg
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President Donald Trump ordered work to begin on a reorganization plan for the federal government to reduce its size and cost.

“Today there is duplication and redundancy everywhere,” Trump said in an Oval Office signing ceremony on Monday. “Billions and billions of dollars are being wasted.”