Elon Musk compared Trump's mass firings to Clinton-era federal streamlining, but the architect of Clinton's plan says they're very different.
Social media posts claimed Donald Trump and Elon Musk had simply "learned from the master" in their attempts to cut government jobs.
The former director of the Clinton administration's federal government reform initiative tells Newsweek how it differs from Trump's root-and-branch approach.
Former President Bill Clinton and President Donald Trump share common ground on several key policy issues, including prosecuting crime, protecting the working class and trade relations with other countries.
Leavitt referenced past video clips of Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden all championing dramatic spending cuts, though only one of them — Clinton, along with a GOP-controlled Congress — managed to cut spending enough to balance the federal budget for a couple of years.
As President Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency push to slash spending, Republican allies have likened their efforts to a White House program from more than 30 years ago.After entering the White House in 1993,
Elon Musk is likening DOGE's aggressive government overhaul to a Clinton-era task force that oversaw a shrinking of the federal workforce
I N HIS FIRST whirlwind month in office, Donald Trump has made his base exultant and left his opponents reeling. With his blitzkrieg, Mr Trump is trying to turn the presidency into the dominant branch of government. The question is how far his campaign goes before he is checked—if he is checked—and where it will leave the republic.
Donald Trump joins a small group of fellow ... Only three of his predecessors underwent similar proceedings: Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, who were acquitted after trials in the Senate; and ...