That’s a hastily compiled shortlist. You’ll find more here. The absence of an agency is not to be construed as approval. I apologize if your favorite candidate for deletion is not there. No malice was intended. Perhaps some parts of the departments of Defense and Justice will need to be retained pending the full liberation of the free market. I’ll leave that for another time.
Moreover, the national government should cease sending taxpayer money to “private” organizations around the world whether they do mischief—which I imagine describes most of them—or not. In fact, it should stop taking the taxpayers’ money and sending it anywhere. Government contracts should be viewed with suspicion.
While I want these agencies and departments zeroed out and their employees freed for productive work, as a libertarian I am also concerned with how this should be done. My worry is not over the government employees being retired. The government should not be a jobs program. Every government employee, who is paid through the theft known as taxation, could be producing goods in the market economy, where consumers rule through consent and exchange. Consumers have more agency than taxpayers do and will be able to let former government employees know whether they are productive or not. If the privatized workers are unproductive in some endeavors, they will have to find others. That’s how the free market works.
Let’s call a spade a spade. All of the state is nothing more than a conspiracy to take money from the non-state actors in the country in which the state is located and give it to members of the state. That is the sole reason for the coercion of the state; take it from you to give to THEM. Cutting the size of the state is the only way to, at least, slow the coercive state predation. Perhaps Trump and Musk need more philosophy on the cutting and less propaganda. They can also cut it out with the f*ing emergencies, because they are not emergencies.