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https://x.com/PatHarriganNC/status/189060161830484...

“EXCLUSIVE: A 40-minute compilation of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore cutting the federal workforce, eliminating agencies, slashing wasteful spending and regulations, and reducing the deficit.

You know, like Trump, Musk, and DOGE.

🔹 In his first weeks, Clinton ordered a 100,000-job reduction in government.
🔹 Over eight years, he cut 380,000 federal jobs—a 16% decrease.
🔹 This was largely driven by the Reinventing Government Initiative (RIGO), spearheaded by Gore to streamline operations and reduce bureaucracy.
🔹 The result? The deficit was erased, and the U.S. ran a budget surplus for the first time in decades.

Today, annual interest payments on the national debt have doubled in four years, reaching $1.17 trillion—now exceeding the entire U.S. defense budget.

America is $36 trillion in debt.

History proves it can be done. The real question: Will D.C. Democrats and activists judges get out of the way so @realDonaldTrump, @elonmusk, and @DOGE can do it again?”

LurkerMom: In his first weeks, Clinton ordered a 100,000-job reduction in government... This was largely driven by the Reinventing Government Initiative...

No, Clinton issued an executive order asking each government department or agency with more than 100 employees to cut at least 4 percent of its civilian positions over three years through attrition or “early out programmes”. About 250 career civil servants worked on the review and created recommendations with agency employees.

A year later in March 1994, Clinton signed HR 3345, the Federal Workforce Restructuring Act of 1994. The legislation passed by wide, bipartisan margins: 391-17 in the House and 99-1 in the Senate. Department of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency and the General Accounting Office employees were exempt.

The Clinton approach sought to be surgical in determining which employees could be eased out without compromising the government’s overall mission.

So, nothing like the current Musk-Trump purge.

So, nothing like the current Musk-Trump purge.

Absolutely correct.

I was working for the federal government during the Reinventing Government Initiative and welcomed it. Any large organization can get top heavy and I could see this in the agency I was working for. And this initiative helped to trim out some of the middle management that was duplicative or not vital to the agency. Good!

And it worked! Cleared out some dead wood, saved money, improved efficiency.

But slowly over time the same top heavy management crept back in.

I'm not sure what the answer is, but I sure as hell know that it is NOT what DOGE/Musk/Trump are doing now. What they are doing is creating havoc and ruining good institutions. It's stupid. But that is the point. Destroy the government.

So, nothing like the current Musk-Trump purge.

Clinton cut cost but he did not examine the fraud and waste as Elon Musk has been task to do.
That alone has already been a tremendous cost savings.

In the end President Trump’s overall government cost reduction will be greater than Bill Clinton.

“Hearing Wrap Up: DOGE Subcommittee’s First Hearing Uncovers Billions Lost to Fraud and Improper Payments, Launches “War on Waste””

https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-u...

"“EXCLUSIVE: A 40-minute compilation of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore cutting the federal workforce, eliminating agencies, slashing wasteful spending and regulations, and reducing the deficit.

You know, like Trump, Musk, and DOGE." - LM

How absolutely dumb does a person have to be to not be able to see the difference between what Clinton did and Musk is doing?

Seriously, you don't understand the difference?

Do you genuinely not understand the difference or are you just playing dumb? Enquiring minds want to know?

Do you genuinely not understand the difference or are you just playing dumb? Enquiring minds want to know?

Umm, Go back to your poker table at the obscure off the Strip joint where you most likely are a
dealer, talking stupid making a fool of yourself looking for answers for your
empty enquiring mind.

Do you genuinely not understand the difference or are you just playing dumb? Enquiring minds want to know?

Umm, Go back to your poker table at the obscure off the Strip joint where you most likely are a
dealer, talking stupid making a fool of yourself looking for answers for your
empty enquiring mind.

In other words, “no”.

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