Trump to Cut 17 Federal Agencies

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[exploited]

lol

[Southern Dad]

Do we need special agencies to handle these tasks or could other agencies that already exist in the government handle those tasks? A little consolidation could help a lot. It eliminates one more hierarchy of leadership. When we look at, for example, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Does $445 million sound like a lot of money? Who wants to take out Big Bird? However, that's almost a half a billion. Is that what our government needs to be doing? The whole list is rife with agencies that do things other agencies could do. Tell me, do we need a specific Office of Violence Against Women? Violence against anyone is already against the law. This is another half a billion.

As for your specific department agency mentioned? The Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. That's another half a billion. They fight discrimination and protect American voting rights. Are you saying this can't be done by a myriad of already existing agencies within the federal and state governments? We all know that discrimination is illegal. Every state has these same functions. Here's a good one on the list. The Office of Electricity Deliverability and Energy Reliability. They are just a quarter of a billion.

I think the Federal Department of Education needs to go. We have local school boards. State boards of education. What is the purpose of the federal Department of Education? Are they succeeding? It's just more tax dollars pissed away that could go to the schools to run a 4,400 employee department with budget of $50 - $70 billion.

[lnrw]

It's very easy to justify the elimination of all the armed agents of federal departments that are not law enforcement agencies. Leave gun toting to the fbi. DHS, DOE, many more could be eliminated and no one would even notice.

Government, at this point, is mostly an over priced, shitty beaurecracy. They do little, cost a lot, and strut around as if they matter.

[ToddStarnes]

You'd have to consolidate a lot more functions under one branch if you got rid of the agencies you mention. Doable perhaps, but there are disadvantages.

[Divinity11]

Folks, these 17 agencies, collectively, cost you and I about 22 dollars a year.

Here's 25 bucks. Keep the f**k change.

[lnrw]

Well then, if as you say, they don't cost much, then they don't do much, if anything, but cost money. They can dissappear and no one would notice.

Every little bit helps. The previous administration doubled the debt. It needs to be seriously reduced.

[lnrw]

[exploited]

These agencies will be slashed, and the money will instead be given away to construction companies via tax credit for building infrastructure that will never actually get built.

I think most people agree that if you are going to be spending money, it is preferable to spend it on civil rights investigations over padding the pockets of the very wealthy.

Perhaps if the real intention was to reduce spending, this would be something I get behind. But it isn't. It is just shifting money around.

[lnrw]

How do you know this?