The Astonishing Implications of Schedule F

Administrative State

• The administrative bureaucracy rules this country in a way that bypasses both the legislative and judicial process, and has ruined the checks and balances inherent in the US Constitution
• Any new president can hire the heads of agencies and they can hire staff, known as political appointees
• These 4,000 appointees ostensibly rule 432 agencies, as well as some 2.9 million employees
• This permanent state knows the ropes and the processes of government far better than any temporary political appointee

Donald Trump came into office with the promise of draining the swamp, without understanding entirely what that meant

• He gradually came to realize that he had no control over most of the affairs of government
• In May of 2018, he took his first steps to gain some modicum of control over this deep state
• Trump issued three executive orders that would have diminished their access to labor-union protection when being pressed on the terms of their employment
• All three were struck down with a decision by a DC District Court
• With this order, he would be in a position to do the same to the federal bureaucracy
• The next step was the creation of a new category of federal employment - called Schedule F - which would have been subject to control by the elected president and other representatives

This would have been a revolutionary change, a complete remake of Washington, DC, and all politics as usual

• It would have gotten us closer to the restoration of a Constitutional system of government in which we have 3 - not 4 - branches of government that are wholly controlled by the people's representatives.
• Many efforts have been deployed through the years to regain constitutional control over the permanent bureaucracy
• An example is the Hatch Act of 1939 which forbids employees of the government to work for political campaigns.

 

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