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

  • The Trump administration has fired thousands of federal workers unexpectedly, diverging from past efforts like the Clinton-era Reinventing Government initiative that aimed for collaborative reforms and buyouts.
  • Elon Musk has promised to save trillions by cutting costs.
  • The Trump administration, with Elon Musk's direction, has cut costs significantly.
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Trump and Musk Aren't the First to Make Deep Cuts. Clinton-era Reinventing Government Saved Billions

Trump and Musk Aren't the First to Make Deep Cuts. Clinton-era Reinventing Government Saved Billions

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

A new administration swept into Washington and announced plans to shake it up, using corporate know-how and new technology to streamline the federal bureaucracy. It offered millions of government employees buyouts and slashed costs to balance the budget. It might sound like the controversial cost-cutting push led by billionaire Elon Musk under the auspices of Republican President Donald Trump. But the biggest effort to overhaul the federal gover…

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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

DENVER (AP) — A new administration swept into Washington and announced plans to shake it up, using corporate know-how and new technology to streamline the…

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How Clinton's "reinventing government" compares to DOGE's approach: "We cut fat and they cut muscle"

The "reinventing government" program cut over 480,000 federal jobs and thousands of regulations. The woman who ran the program says any similarities to DOGE end there.

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How Bill Clinton shrunk the federal government 30 years before DOGE

The former director of the Clinton administration's federal government reform initiative tells Newsweek how it differs from Trump's root-and-branch approach.

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Newsweek broke the news in United States on Wednesday, February 19, 2025.
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