{"id":18390,"date":"2025-10-27T14:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T14:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/18390\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T14:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T14:51:07","slug":"nycs-next-mayor-can-reclaim-government-efficiency-from-doge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/18390\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC&#8217;s Next Mayor Can Reclaim Government Efficiency From DOGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Over the past nine months, the Trump Administration\u2019s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has painted a deeply cynical picture of how to reform government, marked by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/oral-history-doge-federal-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">denigration and firing of employees<\/a>, and the marginalization of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statecraft.pub\/p\/how-to-fix-foreign-aid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">the scientific community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">While the US government remains on track <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/10\/01\/nx-s1-5558298\/doge-fiscal-year-savings-budget-rehired-government-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">for record outlays<\/a>, many of Trump\u2019s deepest cuts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitalcitynyc.org\/articles\/trumps-executive-orders-have-cities-in-the-crosshairs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">have targeted<\/a> America\u2019s cities, which tend to be <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Party_affiliation_of_the_mayors_of_the_100_largest_cities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">disproportionately liberal<\/a>. Mayors have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurist.org\/news\/2025\/10\/us-municipalities-sue-trump-administration-over-conditions-on-disaster-relief-grants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">gone to court<\/a> in an attempt to restore funding. But many are now realizing they may also need a contingency plan for how to get by with less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the past nine months, the Trump Administration\u2019s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has painted a deeply cynical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[288,3339,5869,4337,3970,609,12622,9,24,56,63,65,64,10706,12621,6781,608],"class_list":["post-18390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-business","tag-cities","tag-citylab","tag-department-of-education","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-government","tag-liberal","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-perspective","tag-port-authority","tag-science","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}