My first instinct as President would be to show up the a new department every day for a three month period and personally shake the hand of every employee there and tell every third person the GTFO because you be FIRED. Start back at the first department and do the same thing, only this time fire every other person. That would bring the amount of Federal employees to the level of only 2 - 3 times the needed amount. every government employee claims they could make more money as a private sector employee, I would give them the opportunity to prove it.
To start things “turning to the right,” let us propose a 10 % pay cut per year for all elected Federal politicians.
This 10 % pay cut is to be re-instituted each year that Federal spending exceeds the average of the previous two years of actual Federal income.
BTW, maybe in this small way these “public servants” will begin to “feel our pain.”