Overhaul is underdone
Perhaps emboldened by his efforts to dismantle the federal consumer protection agency, President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget director, Mick Mulvaney, has trained his wrecking ball on the broader bureaucracy. He vowed Thursday to consolidate departments and programs conservatives love to hate during one of the reality-show-style Cabinet meetings that have become a dreary ritual of Trump’s rule. The president even worried aloud that the Mulvaney manifesto was too “boring” to make good television — never mind whether it would constitute good government.
Like any cast member The plan would also worth his 15 minutes, move the Supplemental though, Mulvaney played to Nutrition Assistance Program, the cameras. Rebranding a formerly called food 132-page proposal introduced stamps, from Agriculture to last year under the Health and Human Services, soporific title “Delivering to be rechristened Government Solutions in Health and Public Welfare. the 21st Century,” he called That would brand SNAP it his “drain the swamp” and other programs with a plan, a Trumpian catchphrase word so thoroughly stigmatized casting demolition that Pennsylvania, the as reform. That the budget last state with a department director was unfortunately whose name included the seated next to Environmental word “welfare,” renamed its Protection Agency agency Human Services in chief Scott Pruitt, who is 2014. trudging through a quagmire The executive branch’s of ethics investigations,
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Homeland Security is still three different agencies, one previously rehashed by, an often sullen teenager. among others, Trump nemesis Revisions have been enacted Barack Obama. The occasionally and proposed president was pleased nevertheless: routinely, although “I think you addition rather than subtraction should put that on television,” has been the rule — he said. mostly, in a growing and
To get to some of the changing society, for good potentially boring details, reasons. The trouble for the the overhaul would combine Trump administration, besides the departments of a probably resistant Labor and Education, apparently Congress, is its own stewardship because the administration of the government isn’t that interested so far, which doesn’t inspire in either. Call it, confidence in its readiness with apologies to the first to reshape it. Organization lady, the Department of I should precede reorganization. Really Don’t Care Do U.