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   From: democrat-criminals@mail.house.gov   
      
   https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4772297-a-second-trump-term-would-   
   break-the-back-of-the-bureaucracy/   
      
   The Supreme Court’s recent ruling in the Loper Bright case, overturning   
   the doctrine of “Chevron deference,” is poised to shatter America’s   
   bureaucracy. It will allow federal judges to void any regulation they do   
   not believe Congress expressly gave agencies power to create.   
      
   With the federal bureaucracy already on life support after this explosive   
   decision, we now face the very real possibility that a second term for   
   former President Donald Trump will break the back of the bureaucracy,   
   finishing off the institutional apparatus that is our modern state. The   
   result may well be championed by conservatives, but the quality of life   
   for Americans would be substantially worse, should it come to pass.   
      
   America’s administrative state developed as a result of purposeful and   
   deliberative congressional action. Congress created agencies in the   
   executive branch which they then imbued with lawmaking authority. The   
   legislative process in Congress is incredibly slow and difficult,   
   particularly in times of heightened partisanship. In contrast, the   
   regulatory procedures outlined in the Administrative Procedures Act is   
   substantially swifter and simpler. In an era when Congress can barely   
   agree to pay our debt on time, expecting it to be able to work out a   
   substantial number of complex regulatory issues is a pipe dream.   
      
   Another reason Congress built up the bureaucracy is that it understood   
   that its membership was not composed of subject-matter experts in highly   
   technical fields, but of those that were laymen to the myriad modern   
   issues that required regulation. Building a bureaucracy that is staffed   
   with these sorts of experts is an elegant solution to this problem.   
      
   A key feature of America’s bureaucracy is that, unlike private-sector   
   employees, those with federal government jobs are notoriously difficult to   
   fire. This is largely thanks to a 19th-century act of Congress that   
   modernized the bureaucracy, doing away with the “spoils system” that had   
   dominated federal hiring up until that time. Before this act was passed,   
   federal jobs were usually handed out to lackeys and loyalists who were   
   hired because of their political connections, not merit.   
      
   No longer built off a system of patronage, the federal bureaucracy has   
   been allowed to flourish over the last several decades into what could   
   fairly be called America’s fourth and most functional branch of   
   government. However, because individual workers are so difficult to fire,   
   presidents have oftentimes found managing the bureaucracy to be about as   
   easy to accomplish as herding cats.   
      
   As such, it admittedly makes some sense when this quasi-fourth branch of   
   government is referred to as the “deep state.” The people running these   
   agencies on a daily basis tend to stick around through several   
   presidential administrations over their careers and have the ability to   
   frustrate an administration’s agenda with little worry of recourse.   
      
   The organizational complexity of the bureaucracy is the chief reason why   
   political scientists often refer to the executive branch as the   
   “managerial presidency” — much of an administration’s success is   
   determined by the president’s ability to get this vast apparatus to carry   
   out his agenda. President Harry Truman famously illustrated how   
   frustrating this could be when speaking about incoming president Gen.   
   Dwight Eisenhower, whose experience was in the military, where orders are   
   followed without question. Truman quipped, “Poor Ike. He’ll say do this   
   and do that and nothing at all will happen.”   
      
   Trump was himself also notoriously unable to bend the bureaucracy to his   
   will, which often prevented him from effectively moving policy in as   
   conservative a direction as he desired. Should he get a second term, Trump   
   will look to effectuate the old adage “that which does not bend will   
   break.” To obliterate the resistance that plagued him in the past, his   
   plan is to issue an executive order reclassifying the vast majority of   
   federal employees in order to make it easy to fire them. Once they are   
   gone, he will then look to have them replaced with loyalists who will   
   unquestionably carry out his orders.   
      
   A return to the spoils system would mean America’s professionalized   
   bureaucracy would no longer staffed with individuals who have spent their   
   lifetime studying incredibly narrow topics, like whether a yeast   
   derivative is a drug or dietary supplement. Instead, it will be headed by   
   individuals looking to effectuate a political agenda, which in the case of   
   the Republican Party is to abolish as many regulations as is possible   
   under most all circumstances. The lack of regulation could well help   
   businesses improve their bottom lines, but it will come at the cost of the   
   health and safety of the average American.   
      
      
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   Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden   
   fiasco, President Trump.   
      
   Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the   
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   queer liberal democrat donors.   
      
   President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed   
   dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.   
      
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