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The Trump administration has published its President’s Management Agenda (PMA), detailing its priorities for the federal government over the coming years. The PMA outlines three key priority areas: shrinking the government and eliminating waste, ensuring accountability for Americans, and delivering results with a focus on buying American. The document builds on changes already made by the administration, and will be used to hold agency executives accountable for achieving goals associated with these priorities.
The Trump administration has laid out its President’s Management Agenda (PMA), outlining key priorities to drive change in the federal government over the next few years.
The new PMA published by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) contains several underlying goals tied to three key areas: eliminating “woke” government, ending “over-classification” and “buying American.”
Many of the management agenda goals align with President Trump’s executive orders and other government changes initiated since taking office.
OMB Deputy Director for Management Eric Ueland wrote Monday in a memo to agencies, “President Trump took decisive actions to begin to reshape the federal government…in his first months in office.”
The PMA integrates the administration’s ongoing work into a framework to “institutionalize” its goals. It ties back to Trump’s election promises and sets priorities for every agency to focus on during his tenure.
The Trump administration’s three PMA priorities are shrinking the government and eliminating waste, ensuring accountability for Americans, and deliver results, buy American.
The PMAs have been a staple of presidencies for over two decades, addressing systemic government management challenges by setting and monitoring priority-based goals. Currently, performance.gov, which hosts the PMA, only outlines the management agenda, with more details promised in due course.
The Trump administration’s first PMA priority focuses on shrinking the government and eliminating waste, particularly in “woke” or “weaponized” programs. This includes eliminating wasteful programs, downsizing the federal workforce, and optimizing federal real estate holdings.
The administration has already reduced the federal workforce by over 300,000 employees and aims to further this through strategic hiring committees.
The second PMA priority focuses on driving “accountability” within federal employees, agency programs, and government contractors. The underlying goals include fostering a merit-based federal workforce, ending censorship and over-classification, and demanding results from partners.
The Trump administration’s third PMA priority targets the consolidation of federal procurement and adoption of more modern technology in government services. Specifically, the aim is to efficiently deploy the buying power of the federal government (with a focus on buying American) and leveraging technology for faster, more secure services.
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