OTHERS SAY: Trump makes headway on smaller federal workforce |
For the first time in decades, the federal bureaucracy is getting smaller.
According to the latest federal jobs report, the government has shed roughly 271,000 civilian positions in the past year, putting President Donald Trump within striking distance of his stated goal to cut 300,000 federal jobs by year's end. In an era when government seems only to grow in size and ambition, this reversal is an........