Night Hides....for the record, I guess you do not understand sarcasm. So, for your delicacies, to be exact, we could easily rift 40% of all federal employees excluding defense and national security, which includes the TSA, since they secure our airports, and actually increase the productivity and general happiness of most that remain because they will not be faced with make work that accomplishes nothing.
I have worked with many different branches of government, and it is the same everywhere. We could probably get rid of a couple hundred thousand consultants who largely do the work of the federal employees who sit back and watch the wind blow. And that includes groups like the CDC and NIH.
Even Reagan who ran on reducing government actually increased it, and every president since has done the same. Our tax dollars are sufficiently squandered that a large part of the deficit each year could be eliminated by managing resources that are in great excess. We do not have to fire anyone either, but red shirt every position vacated as people leave due to retirement, move to different positions outside government, death, etc.
And in regard to the IRS, that group could all but be eliminated with smart tax policy, but again, Congress abdicates their responsibility to accomplish anything but increasing their personal compensation and benefits. Without term limits, these corrupt pukes will continue to destroy our country, brick by brick.