President Donald Trump is looking to devolve federal government functions to state and local governments, or to the private sector. In an executive order signed in the late afternoon of March 13, Trump promised a “comprehensive plan for reorganizing the federal government.”
The order pledges to “eliminate or reorganize unnecessary or redundant federal agencies,” and seeks overhaul plans from agency heads within 180 days. It specifies that agency heads need to examine whether agency functions and program “are appropriate for the federal government or would be better left to state or local governments or to the private sector through free enterprise.”
