President Trump Stops Y2K Bug Program, 17 Yrs after Threat Ended


Y2K scare ended 17 years ago but that didn’t stop the federal government from continuing to prepare and fund programs decades after the threat was eliminated. It was President Trump, however, to notice this wasteful use of taxpayer funds and put an end to these archaic needless programs.

The Trump administration announced Thursday that it would eliminate dozens of paperwork requirements for federal agencies, including an obscure rule that requires them to continue providing updates on their preparedness for a bug that afflicted some computers at the turn of the century. As another example, the Pentagon will be freed from a requirement that it file a report every time a small business vendor is paid, a task that consumed some 1,200 man-hours every year.

President Trump brings a fresh set of eyes as an extremely successful businessman to government spending. Instead of wasting his time over Comey’s boasts on how he created a fake Russia “cloud” to hang over the Trump Administration, President Trump is primarily focused on reducing pointless regulation slowing down the economy and the federal budget.

“We’re looking for stuff everyone agrees is a complete waste of time,” Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told reporters at the White House. He likened the move to the government “cleaning out our closets” Deregulation is a major ambition of President Donald Trump’s agenda; as one example, he has signed more laws rolling back his predecessor’s regulations than the combined total of the three previous presidents since the process was established by the 1999 Congressional Review Act.

It about time! It’s ridiculous to think taxpayers have been funding Y2K doomsday measures for the last 17 years and President Trump less than 5 months to put an end to it all. Well done, Mr. President.

Source: Bloomberg 

Image: R.J. Oriez/U.S. Air Force



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