Because four hours simply isn't enough.

This is Armstrong and Getty Extra Large.

Cut jobs, save the government money, send Americans a check for the difference.

That's the Trump plan being floated at least, but is it realistic?

Is it feasible and might it hurt your wallet more than it would help?

Where he's gone too far are a slim majority using presidential power, 52% say he's gone too far there.

Cutting federal programs, 51% of Americans say gone too far.

This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy. Chainsaw!

Chainsaw!

A variety of opinions and thoughts there, having to do with domestic policy, budget-cutting,

bureaucracy, taming, et cetera, which is one of the major initiatives going on in the Trump administration right now.

Who better to discuss this with than Lonhi Chen,

David and Diane Steffie Fellow in American Public Policy Studies at the Hoover Institution

and the director of domestic policy studies at Stanford University.

Lonnie, how are you?

Great to be with you.

How are you?

Just terrific.

Thank you.

Earlier in the show, we were comparing and contrasting the democratic reaction to a lot of the cutting and restructuring and examining the giant bureaucracy, which has been essentially any cuts are a horror in a constitutional crisis with Lincoln's statement that we absolutely have the right to amend, reconstruct, and, you know,

he didn't say this explicitly, but cut or grow government in the way we the people see fit,

it's quite a contrast.

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