Budget-slashing Wisconsin state treasurer plans to cut his own job

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published 6 February 2015

Wisconsin state treasurer Matt Adamczyk took office a little over a month ago, and he expects to be leaving it soon. He campaigned on the promise to trim wasteful state expenditures — including the existence of his own job, which has been rendered mostly irrelevant by other state offices — as soon as possible.

"I'm a big believer in efficiency," Adamczyk explains. "I've always just thought that this office doesn't really have any duties left."

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.