Local State Representative Dan Swanson has joined a number of his Republican colleagues in urging lawmakers to authorize a private sector “deep dive” into state agency spending so that opportunities for cost savings and greater efficiencies can be identified. While supporting the push, he brought up his time in the military
Swanson is a co-sponsor of HJR06 and HB275 which are modeled after President Ronald Reagan’s 1982 executive order calling for a private sector study on cost control, which resulted in the 1984 ‘Grace Commission’ report. That audit led to 2,487 separate recommendations for streamlining government agencies in ways that would have saved hundreds of billions.