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President Obama Signs Order to Cut Waste and Promote Efficiency November 09, 2011 ... View MorePresident Obama Signs Order to Cut Waste and Promote Efficiency November 09, 2011 Public Domain The President directs agencies to cut spending on travel,printing, and IT by 20 percent to cut waste and promote efficiency across the Federal Government. Download mp4 (56MB) | mp3 (5MB) Read the Transcript Remarks by the President at Signing of Executive Order to Cut Waste and Promote Efficient Spending Across the Federal Government Oval Office 11:40 A.M. EST Well, from the day I took office, one of the commitments that I made to the American people was that we would do a better job here in Washington in rooting out wasteful spending. At a time when families have had to cut back, have had to make some tough decisions about getting rid of things that they don’t need in order to make the investments that they do, we thought that it was entirely appropriate for our governments and our agencies to try to root out waste, large and small, in a systematic way. Obviously, this is even more important given the deficits that we’ve inherited and that have grown as a consequence of this recession. This makes these efforts even more imperative. Now, this does mean making some tough choices. It means cutting some programs that I think are worthy but we may not be able to afford right now. A lot of the action is in Congress and legislative and budget. I know the joint committee on trying to reduce our deficits are engaged in a very difficult conversation right now, and we want to encourage them to complete their work. But in the meantime, we don’t need to wait for Congress in order to do something about wasteful spending that’s out there. Cutting waste, making government more efficient, is something that leaders in both parties have worked on, from Senator Tom Coburn, a Republican, to Democrat Claire McCaskill. We haven’t seen as much action out of Congress as we’d like, and that’s why we launched on our own initiative the campaign to cut waste. Not just to cut spending but to make government work better for the American people. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/realitycheck/node/95131

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March 7, 2025