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President Bill Clinton laughs as he tightly draws his arms to his sides when U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich asks the members of the audience to raise their hands if they felt they had job security, during a meeting at the Sunnyvale Community Center, Sept. 10, 1993, in Sunnyvale, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Applewhite, File)

Trump and Musk aren’t the first to make deep cuts. Clinton-era Reinventing Government saved billions

When Bill Clinton came to Washington as president, his Democratic administration used corporate know-how and the new internet to streamline the federal bureaucracy as part of the “Reinventing Government” push.

A demonstrator holds a poster displaying a prohibited traffic sign reading "Musk DOGE" during a rally to protest President Trump's policies on Presidents Day Monday, Feb. 17, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)

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Former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker attends Political Animals Club meeting in Little Rock, Ark., March 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

Former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, who stepped down in the wake of Whitewater, dies at 81

Carrie Muniak joins a rally in front of the Office of Personnel Management, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington. President Donald Trump is relying on a relatively obscure federal agency to reshape government. The Office of Personnel Management was created in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter and is the equivalent of the government's human resources department. It helps manage the civil service, including pay schedules, health insurance and pension programs. The agency has offered millions of federal workers eight months of salary if they voluntarily choose to leave their jobs by Feb. 6. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he signs executive orders in the White House on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, in New York. Less than a year after convincing a jury that former President Donald Trump sexually abused her decades ago, writer E. Jean Carroll is set to take the stand again to describe how his verbal attacks affected her after she came forward. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

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Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., seated right, talks with Ranking Member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., before the House Oversight Committee begins an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Seated left is Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Former U.S. Rep. Steve Buyer of Indiana sentenced to 22 months in prison for insider trading

Republican presidential candidate former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie poses for a photo Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, at a brewery in Goffstown, N.H. He's one of the few GOP candidates focusing on the Granite State this year. Most of the Republican presidential field is focusing their money, time and attention on Iowa. (AP Photo/Steve Peoples)

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FILE -Sen. Lauch Faircloth, R-N.C., asks a question during a hearing of the Senate Whitewater Committee in Washington on July 25, 1995. Former U.S. Sen. Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina, a onetime conservative Democrat who switched late in his career to the Republicans and then got elected to Congress, died Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. He was 95. (AP Photo/Joe Marquette, File)

Former North Carolina US Sen. Lauch Faircloth dies at 95

FILE - Jacqueline Avant, left, and Clarence Avant appear at the 11th Annual AAFCA Awards in Los Angeles on Jan. 22, 2020. Clarence Avant, the manager, entrepreneur, facilitator and adviser who helped launch or guide the careers of Quincy Jones, Bill Withers and many others and came to be known as “The Godfather of Black Music,” has died. He was 92. His death was announced Monday by his family. Jacqueline Avant was murdered in their Beverly Hills home in 2021. (Photo by Mark Von Holden Invision/AP, File)

Clarence Avant, ‘Black Godfather’ of entertainment, and benefactor of athletes and politicians, dies

FILE - First lady Jill Biden rides a bicycle along the beach at Kiawah Island, S.C., Aug. 14, 2022. Jill Biden says exercise helps her find ‘inner strength.’ The first lady attends spin classes when she's on the road. She rides a bicycle near her Delaware beach home. She jogs on the White House driveway. Biden also takes barre classes and rides a Peloton bike. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Jill Biden says exercise including spin classes and jogging helps her find ‘inner strength’

Ex-millionaire who had ties to corrupt politicians gets 5-plus years in prison for real estate fraud