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Trump and Musk aren’t the first to make deep cuts. Clinton-era Reinventing Government saved billions

apnews.com Trump and Musk aren't the first to make deep cuts. Clinton-era Reinventing Government saved billions

When Bill Clinton came to Washington as president, his Democratic administration used corporate know-how and the new internet to streamline the federal bureaucracy as part of the “Reinventing Government” push.

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Trump and Musk aren’t the first to make deep cuts. Clinton-era Reinventing Government saved billions

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Trump and Musk aren’t the first to make deep cuts. Clinton-era Reinventing Government saved billions

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If you read the article, it's not equivocating, it's contrasting.
- Yep. What Clinton did was reasonable and highly effective. Part of the reason Clinton was able to balance the budget and leave office with projected budget surpluses - that Gee Dubya pissed away in tax cuts for the rich. Nothing like the slash and burn process Musk is using.
  
  Clinton has his issues, but his approach was effective. I kinda wish Democrats would take a page from Clinton and offer alternative (read: reasonable, effective, and legal) ways to bring improvements to different agencies.
  
  Clinton followed a bunch of Heritage foundation right lite policies just like Obama. It’s all billionaire backed bull shit to give to the rich at the expense of the rest of us. Clinton gutted workers power with NAFTA, handed billions to private prisons with his “crack down on super predators” policies, and helped along the 2008 crash with his banking deregulation. We haven’t had a true democrat in this country since Carter and that is directly because of billionaire money in politics.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Money_(book)
  
  It's crazy watching liberals praise austerity.

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