If they are serious about change, they have to make much more serious reductions in federal spending. But cutting expenditures is not enough.
Government is too expansive as well as expensive.
Thus, Congress should reconsider the scope of the Cabinet, and not just as an afterthought. Although a number of GOP legislators, along with President Clinton at one point, have talked about killing one or another agency, Congress needs to start from scratch in reassessing every department. The federal government was originally created as a limited institution with only modest, enumerated powers. The Department of War, ultimately transformed into the Department of Defense, came next, followed by the Department of the Treasury. Also in September 1789, Congress created the Office of the Attorney General, but legislators waited another eighty years to establish the Department of Justice.