Leave it to the Washington Post to defend the bureaucratic flab in Washington:

Budget experts say the [efficiency] effort could prove hugely disruptive to workers and businesses that rely on certainty in federal regulation and spending… The panel’s most immediate impact could be to demoralize the federal workforce and increase attrition, several critics said — an outcome that could hinder critical government functions such as approving permits for businesses.

“It could be a very chaotic situation if they try to mass-nullify regulations,” said Tobin Marcus, head of U.S. politics and policy at Wolfe Research, who advised the Obama administration. “Their ‘move fast and break things’ ethos suggests they’ll do something sweeping. But, to me, creating multiple years of legal limbo for many industries is not a great recipe for driving business investment.”

For the record: we are all for defunding and “breaking things” that don’t work. And yes, a lot of “attrition” from the government is just what the doctor ordered.