Agencies expect to hit the first deadline set by the White House’s plan to restructure government and reduce the size of the workforce, but lawmakers want to make sure their efforts don’t come at the expense of effective operations.
At a June 15 Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management Subcommittee hearing, Chairman James Lankford (R-Okla.) said the “complicated bureaucracy has hamstrung agencies” and has been compounded by agencies’ “creating new component agencies and offices in an attempt to better serve their constituencies.”
