WASHINGTON — Think you can do better than your federal boss? President Barack Obama wants to know how.
Obama on Saturday announced a plan for federal workers to propose ways to improve their agencies’ and departments’ budgets. The president said employees’ ideas would be key as his Cabinet officials try to cut millions from the budget and trim the deficit.
“After all, Americans across the country know that the best ideas often come from workers, not just management,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address.
On Friday, Democrats in Congress neared a deal on Obama’s budget proposal and inched closer to passing a bill that would result in about $500 billion in deficits. Obama earlier in the week ordered officials to identify $100 million in savings to achieve over time — a relative pittance against the broader plan, his aides later acknowledged. The Associated Press
