THE CENTER SQUARE—President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to drastically cut government and clean out inefficiencies, but he faces an entrenched power in Washington, D.C., that may throw a wrench in his plans: federal government public employee unions.
“For President-elect Trump to succeed at making the federal bureaucracy more efficient and accountable to the American people, he’ll have to once again do battle with federal unions,” Max Nelsen, a labor policy expert at the Freedom Foundation, told The Center Square.
Trump has tapped top businessmen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency effort. Musk has claimed he can cut $2 trillion in federal spending.
In a November joint editorial in The Wall Street Journal, Musk and Ramaswamy pledged “mass head-count reductions” in the federal government.
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