Cutting Government:

Can the federal government actually, and beneficially, be reduced in size? That question has bedeviled US politics since the country's inception, and the gap between promises and results remains enormous. Elaine Kamarck draws on her extensive firsthand experience to provide an authoritative account of what it takes to make government work better and cost less—and what happens when, as with the Trump administration's DOGE initiative, reformers prioritize disruption over institutional knowledge.