Comment by throw0101a

> Generally speaking the current administration is looking to cut some functions and programs from federal agencies and then pay private entities to perform those same functions because they believe that private industry can perform those same functions better more cheaply [1].

In some cases they want the federal agency to completely stop doing things and let the private sector do them instead: for example the National Weather Service.

Some folks (e.g., the CEO of AccuWeather) wants zero free weather reports from the government, and you'd have to go to a private corporation to get a forecast.

John Oliver had a segment on it during Trump 1.0:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8