Milton Friedman's Posthumous Recommendations for Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) (11/19/24)

• Article (includes 02:27 video clip): dailymail.co.uk/news/ar…

• Full video 04:20): x.com/sfliberty/status/…

Milton Friedman was asked what would do with a laundry list of Federal Cabinet-Level Departments shortly before he died of heart failure at age 94 on 11/16/2006:

Retain:

• Defense

• Justice

• State

• Treasury

Partially retain:

• Health and Human Services (HHS) — abolish about half of it, including at least some research

Abolish:

• Agriculture

• Commerce

• Education

• Energy — except move to Defense areas that tie in with the military

• Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

• Interior (sell off all “government owned” lands except those with federal government buildings)

• Labor

• Transportation

• Veterans Affairs

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• Tracking Trump Cabinet Appointments (Substack Note): substack.com/profile/68…

• George Washington’s original cabinet — STATE, TREASURY, WAR (now DEFENSE), ATTORNEY GENERAL): mountvernon.org/library…

• History of the Presidential Cabinet: