Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy wants to cut 1 million civilian employees from the federal government if he wins the White House in 2024.
Mr. Ramaswamy has proposed cuts for the Department of Education, the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the IRS and the Commerce Department.
“Keep in mind that 30% of these employees are eligible for retirement in the next five-year period,’” he told Axios. “So it’s substantial — no doubt about it — but it’s not as crazy as it sounds.”A do-over of the federal bureaucracy is a cornerstone of Mr. Ramaswamy’s campaign. In July, he told NBC that he wanted to reorganize the same federal agencies.
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