Trump’s Costly Cuts to the Civil Service. The administration is culling the best and brightest from the federal workforce for a rounding error’s worth in savings.

Small potatoes really. Cutting USAid saved 0.3% of the budget and is going to kill millions of people.

He just wants to be able to point to budget cuts at the end of the day, the cost of those cuts in human capital or even human lives be damned.