Memo to agencies: Here’s how to address President Trump’s ‘lean government’ plan



On April 12, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a detailed memo to agencies that, on its surface, establishes guidelines to fulfill the requirements of President Donald Trump’s hiring freeze and reorganization. Beyond the freeze and reorganization, the memo aspires to loftier objectives: tackling “growing citizen dissatisfaction with the cost and performance of the federal government (with) too many overlapping and outdated programs, rules and processes, and too many federal employees stuck in a system that is not working for the American people.”…