Push to 'reform the government root and branch' detailed in Trump’s new management agenda

Eric Ueland, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget, speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill on April 3. Ueland said in a Monday statement that the President's Management Agenda "helps ensure we carry out the President's vision to deliver an effective and efficient Government directly accountable to all Americans.” Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

The Trump administration laid out its plans to “end weaponized government” in its new management agenda released Monday. 

The latest President’s Management Agenda includes goals to eliminate “woke” programs, downsize the government workforce and real estate portfolio, implement workforce reforms and modernize government technology, as well as targets to "annihilate government censorship of speech” and centralize government contracting.

The agenda reflects much of the Trump administration’s longstanding priority to drastically reshape the government, an objective the White House focused on immediately after the inauguration through its Department of ...