President Roosevelt said much the same thing as the Congressional Research Service scholars, more strongly, way back in his 1937 message to Congress: "no person conversant with the management of large private corporations or of governments honestly suggests, that reorganization of government machinery in the interest of efficiency is a method of making major savings in the cost of government."

Created by Douglas Lucas in mid-May 2025 as a footnote for his June 4, 2025 article at Rolling Stone titled Republican bill would legalize DOGE and let Trump dismantle everything: The Reorganizing Government Act is a longshot in the Senate, but that could change--and so would the separation of powers, as well as for his accompanying blog post with extra material. MSN and Yahoo republished the article without paywalls.