Recently, President Donald Trump signed an executive order, which led to the "freezing" of almost all federal hiring. He has made clear that he has plans to downsize the bureaucracy, a plan that many bureaucrats and federal workers were not happy with. Trump will likely be cutting the budget of many agencies in the bureaucracy which would force them to fire employees and become smaller organizations. The bureaucrats however, could "strike back" against Trump through refusing to do certain things, lobbying Congress, or creating policies, using discretionary authority, that go against the President's wishes. There are many unions representing bureaucrats that have already expressed concern about the executive order. The unions are also trying to encourage their members to use the protection of the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 in order to release any documents or files that are unethical, illegal, or corrupt. We will have to wait and see how President Trump's plans with bureaucracy unfold. You can read more about it here.
Many presidents in the past decades have tried to cut down on the size of the bureaucracy and Trump is not the first president to enact an executive order "freezing" hiring. Trump's plans for reducing the bureaucracy are not that different from plans that other presidents have tried and failed. Reagan even increased the bureaucracy despite trying to reduce it. I believe that there is a better method to reduce the size of the bureaucracy rather than directly attacking it. Hopefully the President's plan will have a good effect on the nation and turn out well in the end.
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