Compare that to Al Gore’s 1993 National Partnership for Reinventing Government. It worked with agencies to streamline operations, cut 400K jobs, and repeal outdated rules. The result? $136B saved and increased public trust in government.

This isn’t the first time business leaders have been tasked with government reform. In 1982, Reagan’s Grace Commission estimated $400B in savings but failed to deliver due to a lack of practical implementation. Ambition isn’t enough—you need a plan.

Enter the new DoGE, led by Elon Musk & Vivek Ramaswamy. They’re outsiders with ambitious goals to cut up to $1T from federal spending. Musk calls for abolishing agencies like the Department of Education & the CFPB. Is this really the way forward? History would probably say no.

In 1975, the GAO was tasked with tackling government waste specifically. That year, it saved $284M ($1.65B today). Fast forward to today and over the last decade the GAO has saved taxpayers nearly $1 TRILLION. Slow and steady progress, but progress nonetheless.

The first major effort to address inefficiency came in 1921, when the Budget Act created the General Accounting Office (GAO). Its mission: audit congressional spending. The GAO had some success cleaning up the mess left by WWI. But this was just the beginning.

The topic of government waste is one that has been hotly debated for as long as the United States has existed.

Many agencies and programs have come and gone, very few have succeeded.

This is the past, present, and potential future of the project to make the government more efficient... 🧵

The Department of Government Efficiency has ousted its first unelected Bureaucrat.

Vivek Ramaswamy to run for Governor of Ohio instead of co-heading the agency.

The total amount of money saved by the GAO in just the last 10 years is nearly $1 trillion.

The struggle for a more efficient government is one that has been hotly contested since the founding of this country.

In the most recent article from the Bellwether Post we tackle this complex topic putting the history and future into perspective.

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From the Los Angeles Budget Review. Showcasing the last 5 years of funding to the Fire Department.

The high wage growth in the lowest percentile of income earners didn't seem to have much impact on the recent election. Perhaps it is because this demographic tend not to vote.

We already have a Department of Government Efficiency. It's called the Government Accountability Office and just last year they saved the government almost $70B.

Over the last 6 years that number is more than $400B.

If, at the end of this month the job report shows positive job growth, which it likely will, that means...

Joe Biden the only president to have positive job growth in every MONTH of his presidency.

An interesting read is passages from The Spirit of Law by Montesquieu.

Much of the foundational principles that this country was built on can be found in his writings.

We Are Subject To Our Own Delusions | How distorted stories are dividing our nation

The first article from The Bellwether Post

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