Post by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Federal spending has skyrocketed since 1960. But federal employment isn’t keeping pace. Combined with significant understaffing and increased personnel burdens thanks to the Trump administration’s cuts across federal agencies, the U.S. government faces a very real state capacity problem.     David Lewis explained, in his contribution to Carnegie American Statecraft Program’s Future of American Power project: https://lnkd.in/ewaPjBjx