The following items were compiled from press reports since the November election.
- “We will reduce a lot of government headcount, but we’re going to give very long severances. Like two years, or something like that,” Elon Musk. Mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated. We expect massive cuts among federal contractors and others who are overbilling the federal government. We shouldn’t have 4 million civil servants who aren’t elected and can’t be removed from their positions.
- Relocate federal agencies out of Washington, D.C.
- Stop spending $15.7 billion on underutilized buildings, many being vacant, and sell them.
- Cut regulations and “red tape” from Biden-Harris Administration at $1.8 billion.
- Fire “rogue bureaucrats” and to maintain a physical separation of the Offices of Inspector General from the departments they monitor. Mass firings of “corrupt actors” within federal departments.
- Eliminate the Department of Education. “The long-term goal, but now it’s a short-term goal, of breaking up the federal Department of Education and redistributing its functions to the states,” Trump said in March of last year.
- Old-fashioned spending cuts.
- Rank-and-file DOJ lawyers should be “fully committed to implementing President Trump’s policies or they should leave or be fired,” said Mark Paoletta.
- Eliminate the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – Sen. Rand Paul, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Paul admitted that he does not expect to see widespread support for abolishing CISA, but said he would be open to reforming it instead.
- President-elect Donald Trump will create a commission to review military leaders, assuming that many of the top brass will be fired. It’s necessary to remove “woke” senior military officials who have left the U.S. armed forces in a sorry state.
- Eliminate $1.3 billion in payments to deceased individuals.
- Eliminate $171 million in Unemployment and Social Security improper payments to prisoners.
- Stem $101 billion in Medicaid and Medicare fraud.
- Eliminate extravagant travel by government employees.
- Better asset management of government properties and recoup $2 billion annually on buildings that are underused or vacant.
- Recover $50 million from IRS employees who have tax delinquencies.
- Collect $1.5 billion owed in taxes from 150,000 federal employees.
- Eliminate $98 billion in improper payments in federal programs.
- Eliminate $4.5 billion in excessive spending for public relations.
- Cut $12 million from NASA’s budget for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs and personnel and also eliminate other wasteful spending.
- Cut federal funds in the millions paid to Planned Parenthood.
- Cut $300 million in federal funds to progressive groups.
- Cut $1.5 billion in federal grants to international organizations.
- Cut $535 million in federal funds paid to PBS.
- Cut US Agency for Global Media to save $1 billion. It runs Voice of America, Office of Cuba Broadcasting, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Middle East Broadcasting Networks, and Open Technology Fund.
- Cut National Public Radion tens of millions of dollars.
- Claw back $42 billion for rural broadband expansion because not one project had connected anyone to the internet.
- Eliminate grants for “wild” experiments including $4.6 million for lobster tail and $2.1 for games.
- Revamp the coinage program. It costs 3 cents to produce a penny and 11 cents for a nickel. Changing compositions of coins could save $50 million a year.
- Recover the $1.6 billion in unobligated funds.
- Stop giving hundreds of millions of dollars in unearned bonuses to bureaucrats and contractors, including $500 million at NASA.
- Cut back on government agency swap to the tune of $1.5 billion a year.
- Consolidate federal agencies’ cloud computing software licenses and save $750 million a year.
- Cease United Nations overpayments to the tune of $15 billion a year.
- Cutback the Pentagon’s bloated bureaucracy and save $125 billion.
- Stop paying $1 billion annually for ineligible individuals in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program.
- Bureaucratic blunders in SNAP payments amount of $10 billion a year.
- Reducing federal government duplication could save $200 billion a year.
- Cut $688.5 billion a year in government waste.