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As Elon musk A step from its official role in the Government Efficiency Department (Doge), joins the history of presidential administrations that have tried to simplify the Government – with mixed results.
While former presidents Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Grover Cleveland tried to reduce the judiciary, the treasury and the civil service, only the 20th century is a federal government has grown into a bureaucratic behemoth, this is true what has true Attention Doge type.
Although they are often considered larger consumers, some Democrats joined the Republicans in the 1990s to reduce the size of the government and make more responsible taxpayers.
“We know that the Great Government does not have all the answers,” former President Bill Clinton said during his 1996 Union.
President Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, left to the right. (Getty)
“We know that there is no program for every problem. We worked that the American people in Washington give a smaller, less bureaucratic government – and we must give the American people the one living within its funds.”
“The age of the Great Government is over,” he said, in a phrase, which was mostly considered the closest to the emulation of Doge thought until Musk arrived at the scene.
Clinton also sought social welfare reform and emphasized personal responsibility for the dependence of the state.
Arkansan also called for a reduction in bureaucracy by 200,000 jobs and worked with thenNewt Gingrich, R-gingi’s home speaker.balance the federal budget.
President Donald TrumpThe efforts to do the same received a completely different answer on the left.
Clinton, working with congress Republicans – although often sparring with them – he managed to reduce the federal labor force and establish a budget surplus, but also failed to exercise the reform of the right, something that the newer fiscal hawks fought.
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JFK, left, Robert McNamara, right. McNamara continued to lead Pentagon under President Johnson. (Bettmann/Getty)
Clinton defeated 1992 as a centrist, after the current Republican George HW Bush was charged for the transfer of its “Read My Novi Tax” pledge, with the statistical reinforcement of industrial independent H. Ross Perota, who won the voices of many real estate of Bush’s fans.
Clinton and the then President of Al Gore founded a national inspection of performance (eg), which attracted some parallels to today’s dogs and reduced bureaucracy to the 1960s levels.
He continued to win a re-choice over the otherwise popular Senator of the GOP, Bob Dola, R-Kan., 1996.
In 1980, the actor turned to California Gov. Ronald Reagan He took a white house with promises similar to the other Polyvian facing celebrities, who would do the same 36 years later.
Gipper failed to abolish the Ministry of Education – he created only a few years before former President Jimmy Carter – something Trump also sought.
But he again strengthened the new generation of conservatives, still praising him to reduce his income tax, wanting to “starve the beast” through forced discretionary spending and took over the public sector unions when he basically won the dare to the air traffic controllers who inserted him and banned them again as soon as.
Reagan’s closest iteration of Dogea was the 1982 Commission for the 1982, studied the reduction of costs and efficiency led by Maryland Chemical to the CEO J. Peter Grace, together with dozens of “commissioners” drawn from the private sector.
In an executive order, creating a commission for Grace, he was tasked with questioning “the entire federal government for areas of inefficiency, poor management and waste and recommend savings without increasing taxes or reduction of basic services.”
In her three -year -old century, the Commission reported on savings of $ 424 billion, including waste, fraud, abuse, overpayments to government suppliers and billions of unpaid taxes.
Reagan, however, faced the same proverbial wetland resistance in an attempt to implement the commission findings.
“We’re not trying to hurt anyone. But the US taxpayer is a break away,” Grace said at the time.
Although they started as a conservative pragmatist, Reagan’s later years recorded a budget deficit and state debt more than double. Dow also lost almost one quarter of its value on “Black Monday”, October 19, 1987.
Other contemporary president known for the attempt to “Doge” the Government was Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson. LBJ was known for its rapid expansion of the Government with its social programs of “great society”, but also aimed at simplifying the Pentagon and Defense apparatus.
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The efforts in the Pentagon have not been able to largely succeed, as the Liquid War in Vietnam also emphasized expensive balance sheets.
Defense Minister Robert McNamar, Kennedy’s holder The former Ford Motor Company chief, he was employed for changes in Pentagon.
He established what was called the Planning Budget System, which he sought to bring a simplified approach to the Pentagon budget management.
However, the huge size of the defense bureaucracy – along with the resistance of some military leaders – has undergone the effectiveness of the Johnson and McNamar reforms.
