--- title: The White House Wants to Know If You Want to Eliminate the White House description: You can also choose to nix the CIA, the National Security Council or the Pentagon. canonical: https://time.com/4739049/white-house-survey-eliminate-white-house-cia-pentagon/ author: Abigail Abrams article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-13T20:20:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T10:53:32.519Z article:section: Politics og:title: The White House Wants to Know If You Want to Eliminate the White House og:description: You can also choose to nix the CIA, the Department of Justice or the Pentagon. og:url: https://time.com/4739049/white-house-survey-eliminate-white-house-cia-pentagon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte0dc2d44a39c6439/6988c2babc6cfc3e1f3e0e2d/donald-trump-white-house-survey-eliminate-agencies.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Trump Holds Joint Press Conf. With King Abdullah II Of Jordan At White House og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The White House Wants to Know If You Want to Eliminate the White House twitter:description: You can also choose to nix the CIA, the Department of Justice or the Pentagon. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte0dc2d44a39c6439/6988c2babc6cfc3e1f3e0e2d/donald-trump-white-house-survey-eliminate-agencies.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The White House Wants to Know If You Want to Eliminate the White House ## Video: Watch President Trump's Inaugural Address [Watch (HLS stream): Watch President Trump's Inaugural Address](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/bL9xqRfb.m3u8) (3:46)  _Published 2017-01-20. Donald Trump delivered his first speech as President of the United States on Friday morning._ by [Abigail Abrams](/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Apr 13, 2017 8:20 PM CUT  President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Rose Garden of the White House April 5, 2017 in Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Rose Garden of the White House April 5, 2017 in Washington, D.C.Mark Wilson—Getty Images by [Abigail Abrams](/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Apr 13, 2017 8:20 PM CUT President Trump wants to know exactly which federal agencies you’d eliminate. The White House has launched a website asking Americans to [take a survey](https://www.whitehouse.gov/reorganizing-the-executive-branch "undefined") about which agencies they would like to reform and eliminate. The list of options includes many of the usual targets from Republican politicians, including the [Department of Energy](http://time.com/4598910/rick-perry-department-energy-oops-gaffe/ "undefined") and the [National Endowment for the Arts](http://time.com/money/4639544/trump-nea-sesame-street-budget-cut/ "undefined"). But it’s also fairly comprehensive, including some government agencies you might not expect: the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon, the departments of Homeland Security and Justice, the National Security Council and even the White House itself. > [](https://twitter.com/brfreed/status/852566605661949952) As an online poll that can be easily gamed, the survey is hardy scientific, but it could be a useful tool for the White House to push its own ideas down the road. The Trump Administration has offered up [drastic cuts in his proposed budget](http://time.com/money/4639544/trump-nea-sesame-street-budget-cut/ "undefined") that would get rid of or severely limit a number of government agencies and programs. The survey follows the Trump administration’s guidance to federal agencies on Wednesday, ordering them to begin planning for [deep budget cuts](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/us/politics/trumps-directive-will-lift-hiring-freeze-as-it-asks-agencies-for-cuts.html "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4739049/white-house-survey-eliminate-white-house-cia-pentagon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4739049/white-house-survey-eliminate-white-house-cia-pentagon/"},"headline":"The White House Wants to Know If You Want to Eliminate the White House","datePublished":"2017-04-13T20:20:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T10:53:32.519Z","description":"You can also choose to nix the CIA, the National Security Council or the Pentagon.","url":"https://time.com/4739049/white-house-survey-eliminate-white-house-cia-pentagon/","keywords":["White House","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte0dc2d44a39c6439/6988c2babc6cfc3e1f3e0e2d/donald-trump-white-house-survey-eliminate-agencies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Abigail Abrams","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte0dc2d44a39c6439/6988c2babc6cfc3e1f3e0e2d/donald-trump-white-house-survey-eliminate-agencies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Trump Holds Joint Press Conf. 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