William Galston, the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies, addresses the OMB's recent directive to federal agencies, which gave more information on President Trump's executive order to cut personnel, and how these efforts to "drain the swamp" will likely prove counterproductive to the work of the administration.

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