This is an alphabet game aka Mental Masterbation

Which should be a State's Right position. With no Federal affiliation, like the recent SCOTUS Abortion Decision

I will even expand this to positions like this!

New State Department diversity chief believes US is a ‘failed historic model’ with a ‘colonizing past’

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BATFE, IRS, DEA

Department of Education.
That’s not to say so aspects of what they do aren’t needed, just that they could be incorporated into other departments and get rid of the bloated bureaucracy.
That’s true of many other departments. They’ve become huge and so ineffective.
I like the approach of the new President of Argentina.

Dept of Energy should be abolished of all function, other than overseeing nuclear and even that should be reevaluated. Its focus of encouraging and assisting the US to be energy independent has morphed to a money handout to contractors involved in CO2 reduction. For instance where they used to assist coal fired power plants to be more efficient, now they all but ignore them, in fact they discourage even using the word "coal" instead it's to be referred to as "carbon ore". DOE is nothing more than a conduit to hand out Federal funding to private but full time federal contractors for green energy, studies and subsidies for CO2 pipelines, etc, they themselves accomplish NOTHING.

Dept of Education should be abolished.

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Dept. of housing and urban development
Dept. of energy
Dept. of education
Dept. of homeland security


Silent

Uh...all of them, let's try that for awhile.

EPA

Michael Marsh was the first appointed Inspector General for the Denali Commission.

In every one of his Semiannual Reports to Congress Marsh would open the Report with a recommendation to a) Make his job unnecessary by b) Abolishing the Denali Commission, listing all of the reasons that the agency shouldn't be allowed to continue in existence.

I retired from the IG community, and if it were possible to adopt an actual human as a "spirit animal," mine would be Michael Marsh.

I'd recommend just working the list alphabetically.

This is an article about President Melei of Argentina that gives you an idea of what he's trying to do.
Their recent inflation rate has been around 140% and spending out of control everywhere.

He's up against the usual suspects that caused this mess to begin with and has a very limited time to make things happen.
The media will be hating on him for sure and the PBS article I linked was unexpectedly reasonable, considering their normal positions versus his, as a libertarian type candidate.
So far the media here has mostly ignored him but if he has any success, he better watch his back as they will be in a full on attack.
I wish him great luck and hope he does well and is a good example for others.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/w...y-and-cuts-subsidies

Maybe not the entire USDA but it's made up of 17 staff offices and agencies...

It needs an overhaul.

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Originally posted by sigspecops:
Uh...all of them, let's try that for awhile.

I'll keep DOD. Nuke the rest, yes.

Dept of Homeland Security. Just another layer of government that's now being used to surveil and persecute American citizens.

Step one eliminate the rationale for existence, meaning first eliminate all the rules regulations and various things they use to justify existence ( and the never ending demand for larger budgets) then the agency itself.
Any regulatory agency that overlaps with a state agency
For example US fish and wildlife service- it is I.legal in every state in the nation to harm endangered species, and every state has a fish and game agency that enforces that. Get rid of the top layer.
This would eliminate 80+% of the government.
Eliminate the VA in its current form
Issue every eligible veteran an insurance card that allows them to seek care at the most convenient facility to where they live.
Considering how bloated that agency is, even without oversight, it would probably still cost less ! That is one place older vets/ organizations differ. I am a member of the VFW and they have always supported keeping the VA in place, while IAVA ( Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans) have advocated for the latter.

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Originally posted by sigspecops:
Uh...all of them, let's try that for awhile.

Yeah... all of them.

Easier question: Which ones wouldn't you eliminate?

i'd follow Argentina's example

Truthfully, most of them will need to be severely curtailed before long due to the federal debt.

I think it is easier to list the righteous functions which could be retained. National defense, international trade regulation, true interstate transportation (interstate highway maintenance, interstate aviation), federal courts, federal law enforcement.

All of these need severe downsizing from current levels.

The government needs funding, so there needs to be a revenue department. Similarly there needs to be standardization and oversight for safety and consumer protection.

The problem is the enormously bloated and heavy fisted version we have today. We need federal law enforcement, but not what the FBI is now. We need some oversight of the banking and financial industries, but not what we have now.

Most of all, get rid of the Federal Reserve Bank! It is not officially government, but they are in bed together.

and Elon's example

Federal Reserve, oh wait, that is a private entity.