While Democrats in Congress howl over President Donald Trump’s cuts to wasteful and fraudulent government spending, they’ve been hit with a partywide case of amnesia.
They’re forgetting their own party once stood for fiscal responsibility, even creating their own version of the Department of Government Efficiency, an initiative called Reinventing Government—REGO for short.
Also known as the National Partnership for Reinventing Government, REGO was a federal government reform initiative launched in 1993 by then-Vice President Al Gore. REGO aimed to save the federal government some $108 billion over five years by eliminating what a press report from that era called “scores of wasteful programs and regulations.”
“This report tells us how to cut waste, cut red tape, streamline the bureaucracy, change procurement rules, change the personnel rules, and create…
