Ted Cruz Would Put 150,000 Feds on Notice and Eliminate Automatic Pay Raises

Government Executive: One Republican presidential candidate wants to eliminate federal agencies so badly he has proposed doing away with one department twice.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, in the Republican presidential candidates' debate Tuesday said he would eradicate five major agencies if elected president, but inadvertently mentioned the Commerce Department twice. In a new federal government reform plan rolled out by the Cruz campaign this week, however, the senator clarified which agencies he would get rid of: the "Internal Revenue Services" [sic], as well as the departments of Education, Energy, Housing and Urban Development, and, of course, Commerce.

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