Blunders and scandals have created a public distrust of the government, and the way to fix it is to make government “smaller, more effective, and more efficient,” House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) recently said.
Writing in his weekly update for local constituents in the blog Bakersfield Observed, McCarthy claims “government incompetency” led to a recent string of headlines – the trouble at the Veterans Administration, IRS record-keeping, the Healthcare.org website and the Secret Service failing to protect the White House – as the rationale for America’s growing distrust.
“The recent blunders and scandals are not just the product of failed policy, but represent serious management failures by the president and his administration,” McCarthy wrote. “Restoring competency in government requires both shrinking government to its appropriate scope and mission, and reforming how government operates in its core sphere. We must work to end this cycle of failings and make government functional again.”
A McCarthy-led House of Representatives “will continue to focus on reforming and streamlining federal agencies so government works as it should,” he wrote.
He concluded by writing that Americans experience efficient operations when they bank, shop and pay bills – and the government should operate under the same level of expectations.
“That means we must ensure that our goals are feasible, that government changes with the changing times, and we never accept problems, inefficiency, and incompetency just because it’s government,” McCarthy wrote. “Real, modernizing reform is possible and the House of Representatives is committed to achieving it.”