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To: Roads End who wrote (762826)5/13/2022 11:52:08 AM
From: D. Long2 Recommendations

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Alan Smithee
lightshipsailor

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Trump was doing that by attrition and hiring freezes - deliberately not filling civil service vacancies and shrinking the federal service. Overrall, it just managed to slow the increase rather than shrink it.

The federal civil service is a leviathan with a life of its own. Hard to kill it.



To: Roads End who wrote (762826)5/13/2022 12:05:58 PM
From: skinowski4 Recommendations

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lightshipsailor
pheilman_
Roads End
TimF

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90K jobs out of 475K is a meaningful “de-bloating” -g.

Good for him - and for the UK.

Agree - we can only dream that something like this would happen here.