Some Bad Ideas Never Die

The White House's recent budget submission included yet another call for sunsets (forcing programs to stop their work every 10 years and plead for their lives) and reorganization powers (to develop government reorganization plans to be rammed through Congress on a fast-tracked, take-it-or-leave-it basis). And today's release of the volume detailing programs to be eliminated or slashed also repeats the call. For more information on just how bad this idea is -- and some better ways to go about the purported aims of the sunset/reorg proposals -- check out our testimony on the House bills that embody the White House proposal.
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