The Washington Post Has Determined the Federal Bureaucracy Is Bloated and That Trump Is Trying to Streamline It

It's not clear how the paper made these determinations, but it does assert them to be true in the second paragraph of an article on the Trump administration's plans to reduce the rights of federal employees:

"The administration describes Trump’s new rules, issued in May, as an effort to streamline a bloated bureaucracy and improve accountability within the federal workforce of 2.1 million."

While it is certainly possible that the Trump administration is motivated by a desire to make governm...