White House Seeks to Merge/Consolidate Department of Commerce, USTR, Ex-Im Bank and several other agencies

This could be a good basis to "rationalize" and "consolidate" and "streamline". I fear, however, given the Federal government's track record, this will only create an unwieldy, multi-headed monster much like, say, DHS.

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