President Taft worked with Congress to launch his effort to streamline government, while Trump has taken a different route.

In 1910, it was Frederick Cleveland, an academic, who was President William H. Taft’s designated head of his effort to streamline government. Both presidents, Taft and Trump, have said they ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) There are two individuals intrinsic to any presidential effort to restructure ...