Benefits and Drawbacks of Reducing Federal Bureaucracy and Workforce

The Bureaucracy Under President Trump
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The Bureaucracy Under President Trump

The Trump administration embarked on a mission to reduce the Federal Bureaucracy and the Federal Workforce. There are two ways in which the administration showed this effort. The first was a cut in the budget going to some government agencies. As part of the President’s campaign promise, the purpose of the cuts is to lower the federal deficit pay for the new tax law (Rein & Ban Tran, 2018). Secondly, the government did not replace the retiring employees or those who left for the private sector while imposing a freeze on government hiring.

While the idea is good because it reduced the bureaucratic process to increase efficiency, I don’t think this not a good approach to managing government. This is because it leaves many vacancies within the government, meaning that some things cannot go on. As argued by Michael Lewis in The Fifth Risk (2018) the government handles glacially paced risks daily when nothing dramatic happens. However, mismanagement, in the long run, results in major repercussions.