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Memo To Musk & Ramaswamy: How To Cut $2 Trillion of Fat, Muscle And Bone, Part 5

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david stockman
Nov 22, 2024
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As we have indicated, the 16 agencies slated for elimination in previous installments do comprise a kind of Litmus Test of fiscal resolve. If these Federal bureaucrats and agencies can’t be eliminated, the prospect for reining in America’s unfolding fiscal calamity is dim indeed.

Yet the 70,000 headcount reductions and $11 billion of savings constitute h…

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