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Article: Clinton to reduce White House staff
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 10, 1993
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WASHINGTON -- In an action that administration officials
acknowledged was largely symbolic, President Clinton announced
yesterday he would trim the White House staff by 25 percent.
But the plan will reclassify more than 1,000 executive branch
workers and exclude them from the baseline count. It also will allow
many officials to be transferred and will result in only a 5 percent
White House budgetary savings.
Moreover, Clinton did not repeat his campaign challenge that
Congress follow his example, which would have a far bigger impact on
the $1.5 trillion federal budget.
Clinton said he was cutting the White House staff by 350 people
in an effort to show that he is willing to endure the ...