Many of President Donald Trump’s political appointees face the unusual task of drastically downsizing and even eliminating the agencies they have been asked to lead.
A little over a month into his second term, many agency heads have already been tasked with slashing the work forces they’re supposed to lead as the administration escalates its war on what it says is an unwieldy federal bureaucracy. The starkest example has been the US Agency for International Development, now virtually nonexistent after becoming a target of Elon Musk’s the Department of Government Efficiency. Yet many other agencies are on the chopping block, ...