In an attempt to defend the controversial movement of government efficiency, Elon Musk has aggressive renewal of government, chopped by the work force for Clinton, federal employee.
“It is known,” Musk wrote in a X post Xend in response to a 40-minute compilation video for the weekend and speaks of Vice-Vice-President Al Gore.
The White House press Karoline Leavitt did the same argument on the new fox, saying that the administration has promised Americans in decades.
But experts policy, including some of the participating in the Clinton initiative, are emphasized that there are great differences between the parties and so far.
He directs the Vice-President of Gore, Clinton gave Clinton more than 380 recommendations to reform the government, to change the government “more expensive and effective” culture of our national bureaucracy “. Concern and right to initiative and empowerment. “
In his opening weeks, it can call agencies, reduce 100,000 jobs for three years, 10% or more from high-level federal staff. In 1994, Clinton signed the law of federal restructuring of Bipartisan staff, which offered $ 25,000 to buy non-defense department staff.
At the end of his authority, Clinton federal reduced by more than 377,000 employees. But all this spread over several years and with the help of Congress.
President Bill Clinton and President Al Gore presented a revision of national performance or a report to reinvent the government on September 7, 1993.
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Donald Trump and DOGE president, on the other hand, is approaching faster and is smaller fashion than the clinton administration. And unlike Clinton, Trump does not have a wide purchase of bipartisan.
“It is very difficult to compare, because the Trump Administration replaces the government and is within the former professor of Donald Kettl, Emeritus Emeritu and Maryland University of Public Policy.
Kettl described Musk-Trump as a “bulldozer” as “bulldozer” modeled X. Musk’s leadership. Muscles after muscles rose to 80% and take it in 2022.
“But that’s pretty dangerous operation,” Kettle said. “It’s one thing if your social networks go down, it’s another thing when you tink with air traffic control or food safety.”
Since the inauguration of Trump, more than 200,000 federal employees have eliminated their roles more than dozen agencies, According to ABC News. Firms have happened in the Department of Energy, USAID, Environmental Protection Agency.
Lisa Murkowski republica lasthics launches, and as he agreed to reduce the size of the government, “his approach is confusion, anxiety and now trauma to our officials.”
“No discrimination cuts are not effective and they will not solve the federal budget, but they will hurt people who responded to the public service that can make a significant work for our nation,” Murkowski said.
John Curtis, R-Utah showed similar concern: “There is one thing I could change about the doge, I think it moves so fast, it’s not really the factoring in human element.”
Elon Musk has heard as President Donald Trump speaks at a White House office in Washington, February 11, 2025.
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Musk, Tuesday night in a conversation with Trump launched by Fox News, said the goal of DOGE was cut off $ 1 billion from the deficit.
Clinton could balance the budget and cut the deficit, but it wasn’t due to his work cuts or efficiency reforms, Kettl said. Clinton managed to establish economics and tax rises and expense cuts.
Elaine Kamarck, directed by the Democratic Operation, directed by Musk and Dane, said advanced technologies, but they are fast moving to produce the desired effects. Kamarck is now director of governance studies and the effective public director in the Institution of Brookings.
“If they had no hurry, Trump could take advantage of the new AI technology to make the government more efficient,” Kamarck said. “But you can’t do it with a blunderbuss and they’re doing that.”
Musk Defend the work of Dogee At the Trump Oval office last week, the administration received a ruler from the voters to encourage a federal federal bureaucracy and “government”.
The Muskara admitted that the entity would make mistakes and “no one can do 1,000”.
“We are moving fast, so we will make mistakes, but we will fix the mistakes very quickly,” he said.
Budget experts doge findings so far
In conversations with ABC news, the gogers of DOGE praised the budget experts, but some alleged findings and cuts for the federal work. DOGE has reduced $ 55 million on cuts, but Image is hard to check And they have only known some records.
Experts also question the money that the federal government ultimately “save” money programs. Some of them require some of the approval of Congress by establishing a fight against potential.
Matt Glassman, an older friend from the Government of Government of Government, has said the Musk and Trump administration explains the concepts of government waste and fraud.
“There are real scams, and Musk has talked about that, if the doctors bill the doctors with fake patients, that is, they are fraud,” he said. “Being a disagreement with the previous administration is called reality.”
Douglas Holtz-Bakerak, President of the American Action Forum, a conservative thinking tank and the former director of the Congress Budget office told ABC News definition of Trump Definition “in the eye of the beholder”.
“They have marked certain things that are fools or awesome, but other people can think that they are valuable programs. They become political football and defenders in Congress make it difficult to make restrictions,” he said.
Musk has complyed with the aim of cutting $ 1 trillion dollars, the White House has to improve USAID programs and “random and randoms”, the Holtz-Boak has added.
“If you really want to cut federal expenses you need to reform great programs. Social security, more than half of all medicare money expenses in the next ten years,” he said.
