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 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 government in modern history actually was 30 years ago under a Democratic administration. It was then-President Bill Clinton’s “ Reinventing Government ” initiative, under the control of his vice president, Al Gore.
Musk himself has recently tried to associate himself with the
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