# President Trump is Making Government Work for You Again

**The White House**  
**March 4, 2025**

President Donald J. Trump immediately undertook a bold, necessary effort to downsize the federal government by ending the waste, fraud, and abuse that has permeated virtually all aspects of the bureaucracy — making sure government works for the taxpayers who fund it.

- President Trump  the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to maximize government productivity and ensure the best use of taxpayer funds — which has already achieved  for taxpayers.
- President Trump  his plan to downsize the federal bureaucracy and eliminate waste, bloat, and insularity.
  - President Trump  federal workers to return to the office five days a week.
  - President Trump  federal agencies hire no more than one employee for every four employees who leave.
  - President Trump  the wasteful Federal Executive Institute, which had become a training ground for bureaucrats.
  - President Trump  the termination of all federal Fake News media contracts.
- President Trump is reigning in agencies overtaken by unelected bureaucrats.
  - President Trump stopped the  — ensuring taxpayers are no longer on the hook for funding the pet projects of entrenched bureaucrats, such as sex changes in Guatemala.
  - President Trump  the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — the brainchild of Elizabeth Warren, which  cash to left-wing advocacy groups — to halt operations.
  - The Environmental Protection Agency  tens of millions of dollars in contracts to left-wing advocacy groups,  an investigation into a scheme by Biden EPA staffers to shield billions of dollars from oversight and accountability, and  168 “environmental justice” employees on leave.
  - President Trump  the massive  of the IRS that took place during the Biden Administration.
  - President Trump  a review of funding for all non-governmental organizations so taxpayers are no longer funding those that undermine America’s interests.
    - The review  15,000 grants worth $60 billion for potential elimination.
  - The Department of State issued a “pause” on existing foreign aid grants to ensure accountability and efficiency.
  - President Trump  the wasteful Biden-era “Climate Corps” program.
- President Trump  last-minute collective bargaining agreements issued by the Biden Administration, which sought to impede reform.
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