"REGO" - AL GORE'S REINVENTING GOVERNMENT 1993

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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It was clunky, and a little Office Space-like. And it cut federal jobs. But then-Vice President Al Gore's "REGO" program was different in many ways from "DOGE" -The 1993 program was bipartisan, considered [cuts were identified, then made, in that order. And it was slow, and generated little protest. It did generate tension in the Clinton White House, which we get into. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
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0:12.8	Who's in then?
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0:24.6	Rigo, or reinventing government, Stephanopla, said, was to Gore what health care was to Hillary.
0:31.5	A worthy goal that grew out of control.
0:34.6	Another White House within a White House.
0:37.4	That you, as federal federal workers know how to change the government so that it works much, much better,
0:45.3	and costs a whole lot less. First thing I want to say is I'm going to discuss a topic today and it's going to appear like
1:13.2	I'm comparing something. When I'm not, I'm comparing and contrasting something. And I think often
1:19.0	in history, anytime I do a topic, there'll be this kind of inherent. You're comparing this
1:24.1	to that. You're saying that this is the same as that. And that's not necessarily
1:29.0	what I'm doing. As a person that does a show about history and politics, it might be tempting
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