Trump seeks to reorganize the federal government

[Julian Englis]

Source: Politico

The Trump administration is preparing to release a sweeping plan for reorganizing the federal government that includes a major consolidation of welfare programs — and a renaming of the Health and Human Services Department.

The report, set to be released in the coming weeks by the White House OMB, seeks to move safety-net programs, including food stamps, into HHS, two sources with knowledge of the plan told POLITICO. The plan would also propose changing the name of the sprawling department, while separately seeking cuts at USAID and the State Department.

The $70 billion food stamp program, formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, is run by USDA and makes up the vast majority of the department’s budget. The program helps more than 40 million low-income Americans buy groceries each month.

“You have low-income assistance in a bunch of different shops without one point of oversight and without a whole lot of communication,” said one of the people with knowledge of the plan. “Why not have one federal agency responsible for execution?”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/06/trump-reorganize-federal-government-629133

[htuttle]

1. He should probably try his hand at actually running the government before he starts redesigning it

dumbass....

[dameatball]

2. This guy could not organize a Tupperware party.

[SoCalNative]

12. Unless a group of hookers was involved

[MBS]

19. Good (and reassuring) point.

Will Congress be able to stop this?
Mueller and the November elections can't come soon enough.

[empedocles]

3. What could possibly go wrong with Trump trying to do that?

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Take him literally: EXECUTION

kaput - end of programs

[louis-t]

5. Answer is easy: put all the programs you hate into

one agency then defund it. See? Simple.

[CrispyQ]

6. This.

Heartless, inhumane bastards, all of them. The GOP can no longer deny this is who they are. Separate children from their parents, deny sick people health care, starve the least among us, & yet they have convinced almost half of America that they are the party of Christ.

[MBS]

20. EXACTLY.

[angrychair]

7. This⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️ nt

[hedda_foil]

8. So that's the plan for Social Security and Medicare. Move it and defund the new department.

[BigmanPigman]

9. NO WAY! He lives for CHAOS in his life and business.

Same goes for politics. He is about as brilliant as Maxwell Smart. Maybe Melanie is the 2018 of the robot Hymie. Pruitt already has the "cone of silence". Manafort uses his shoe phone to tamper with witnesses. Siegfried (KAOS) would be Putin but Putin is smarter.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058805/

[SergeStorms]

10. Does he need Congressional approval for this?

If he does, I can't see it ever happening. There are more than enough Trumptards on social programs where Congressional Republicans would see right through Trump's "brilliant" plan.

[relogic]

11. Wake me up.

I keep pinching myself to see if I’ve been transported to a dimension of madness unleashed upon my material certainty. Can’t recall that there was any president of the USA that ever wrecked such havoc upon so many government bodies.

His restructuring and the eventuality of defunding and thus failure of so many needed programs would have been unfathomable under P. Obama and warranted condemnations from all sensible people.

In his warped mind he believes this is creative, genius and novel when it is simply outward manifestations of schizophrenia.

[PSPS]

13. "one federal agency responsible for execution" is a Freudian slip

[Matthew28]

14. The plan is to kill

everything that helps people.

Trump is as evil if not more so then Ted cruz.

[duforsure]

15. Another thing putin did in russia

so no surprise . He wants to make it for him which is what dictators do.

[LudwigPastorius]

16. "Why not have one federal agency responsible for execution?"

So, you can hasten the elimination of all government assistance with budget cuts to one agency?

[radhika]

17. I thought that was Jared's Job

Father-in-law micro-managing

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/jared-kushner-gets-new-job-overhauling-federal-government.html

[truthisfreedom]

18. In the way I seek to reorganize a few eggs while scrambling

them up for breakfast. Total entropy. Chaos is king in 45’s world.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

21. I worked for the U S Public Health Service

for a decade. New administrations come and go and presidents shift agencies and shuffle sub-departments often, for the sake of streamlining and efficiency. But I don't like the sound of this one bit. And I definitely do not trust trmp or his minions at all.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

22. Trump isn't doing a damn thing except signing orders.

Why do we promote headlines saying Trump does this and Trump does that when he couldn't reorganize his own golf bag?

We, and our public media should be discussing the actual origins of this butchery...for example (from the article):
(snip)

The plan appears to draw, at least in part, from recommendations made last year by The Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank that has deeply influenced Trump’s agenda in his first year and a half in office.

Heritage recommended that all nutrition functions at USDA — including food stamps, nutrition education and school meal programs that serve some 30 million children each day — be transferred to HHS.

By only pointing to Trump, then when he's gone, it will imply the policies are gone. The fact is, right-wing think tanks that are the origins of much of this crap are rarely discussed in the media, and we never hear of the people that head-up these organizations - that have huge impact on our lives and in reality are our worst enemies.

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