'Sheriff Biden' Versus The Weed Agency

In a 2011 blog post titled “There’s a New Sheriff in Town,” the White House announced that Vice President Joe Biden was spearheading a new “effort to root out wasteful spending at every agency and department in the Federal Government” called the Campaign to Cut Waste. As if to emphasize the urgency of the situation, another post went up on the White House blog just fifty-six minutes later entitled TooManyWebsites.gov (a tongue-in-cheek title). Then-director of digital strategy Macon Phillips singled out several websites on Sheriff Biden’s most wanted list:

As the President points out in this video, our government doesn’t need a website dedicated to foresters who play the fiddle. We also don’t need multiple sites dealing with invasive plants (here and here). And I‘m pretty sure the website dedicated to the Centennial of Flight can come down… particularly since the Centennial was in 2003.