Fact Check: Obama’s Record on Eliminating Government Programs
The President just claimed that he eliminated 77 programs, including 18 education programs. But by one count, Obamacare created as many as 159 new boards, bureaucracies, and programs. Another estimate found that the number of Obamacare’s bureaucracies was ultimately unknowable. And the Internal Revenue Service requested a whopping 1,270 new bureaucrat positions to implement the law – a down payment on what could be up to 16,500 agents hired by the IRS to enforce the individual mandate and other related provisions. That’s not reducing government bureaucracy and spending – that’s increasing government bureaucracy and spending.