“Every single agency” of the federal government has wasteful components, according to Carly Fiorina, who said she’d push to implement a new budgetary tool to eliminate inefficiencies across government if elected president.
During a conference call with reporters Thursday, The Daily Caller asked the Republican presidential candidate if she would get rid of any federal cabinet departments or agencies as president.
“While it might feel good to name two or three agencies that we could eliminate all together, the truth is every single agency has vast amounts of inefficiencies, ineffectiveness (even worse), duplication, just plain abuse and corruption,” Fiorina said.
Fiorina called for “zero-based budgeting” to prevent wasteful programs from slipping through the cracks every year.
“Not only would be know where every dollar is being spent, but we ask every agency to justify every single program every year,” Fiorina said.
One specific government agency Fiorina pointed to as wasteful: “The Small Business Administration is supposed to be there to help small businesses,” she said, “but in fact what it is doing is promulgating a lot of complexity that harms small businesses.”