Dukasaur wrote:saxitoxin wrote:kennyp72 wrote:Is this the streamlined costs you speak off? (How much did it cost before $5 million?)
Worse than that, federal probationary workers at eight agencies who were recently fired now have to be hired back with backpay and are sitting drawing administrative leave pay.
For the record, I support cutting the size of the federal workforce but even I knew the slipshod way they did it (claiming all probationaeers had inferior performance) was never going to pass a court challenge.
So now, not only is the federal workforce
not cut, it's actually cost more than had we not even tried to cut it at all.
Yuppers. But JP4F is still going to scream "Cost Savings!"
Claiming savings will be difficult to prove to skeptics; much of that (Proving that savings were achieved) will be both political and based on what accounting method is done.
I will say that BOTH the Federal budget and workforce has become bloated, too large, and too inefficient. What Trump, with the help of Elon Musk, has done so far, is to disrupt that status quo. A more efficient, less expeditious approach may have been better, but the momentum and disruption would not be as significant. There are many quotes of Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, and other Democrats complaining about government inefficiencies and wastes that I have recently heard, BUT they DID NOTHING to reverse or FIX that when they had a chance to do so. They were too concerned about:
1) DEI
2) keeping the Government workers happy, hoping that they would vote Democrat.
Many claims of government inefficiencies were focused on Medicaid, some 1/3 of expenditures were called such. AND that entitlement is growing. Failure to control expeditures for Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security COULD bankrupt this country. Those entitlement programs need MASSIVE reform and have need that for a long time. Congress continues to keep "kicking down the road" those needed reforms.
September 14, 2011
Vice President Biden Announces Over $2 Billion in Anti-Waste Measures at Cabinet Meeting
New Initiatives Led by Campaign to Cut Waste Will Save Medicaid Waste & Strengthen Partnership with States to Reduce Improper Unemployment Insurance Payments
WASHINGTON – At the White House today, Vice President Biden convened a Cabinet meeting to discuss waste reduction at federal agencies as part of the Administration’s Campaign to Cut Waste. The Vice President announced a new initiative to fight waste in Medicaid that is estimated to save taxpayers over $2 billion, unveiled new efforts to track state progress in reducing improper Unemployment Insurance payments, and directed each Cabinet secretary to undertake a waste and efficiency review that will target unnecessary, wasteful, and inefficient federal spending.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/14/vice-president-biden-announces-over-2-billion-anti-waste-measures-cabineTotal Medicaid spending growth slowed to 5.5% in FY 2024 and is expected to slow further to 3.9% in FY 2025. While state Medicaid officials identified unwinding-related enrollment declines as the most significant factor driving changes in total Medicaid spending, they also noted a number of upward pressures on total spending. This included enrollment increases from eligibility changes such as 12-month continuous eligibility for children or overall state or Medicaid eligible population growth, the higher health care needs of enrollees that retained coverage during unwinding, and rate increases.
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/medicaid-enrollment-spending-growth-fy-2024-2025/
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