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Scalpels by November 18
- By Alyssa Rosenberg
- November 11, 2008
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John Podesta announced that the Obama team will have policy review teams in place by November 18. So if folks start showing up in your office, remember FedBlog's citizen journalist policy: if you see something, say something. It's not clear that this initial review will produce cuts in any programs, as Obama discussed in his debates with McCain (Obama said one needed to use a scalpel on the federal budget, while McCain said a hatchet had to come first).
I think the sense is more that these are genuine policy reviews, and that, just as Obama is looking at Bush's executive orders to see which ones he wants to overturns, he's looking for agency policies to reverse or modify as well.
(H/T: Marc Ambinder)
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