The president should have the power to staff the executive branch with people he knows will not actively work against his policies.
In only a few weeks’ time, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has uncovered truly outrageous misuse of taxpayer funds. From subsidizing electric vehicles in Vietnam to commissioning a “transgender comic book” in Peru to bankrolling infrastructure projects in Egypt, the career bureaucrats over at USAID have gone on quite the bender with taxpayer dollars over the years. But this prodigal spending only represents the tip of the iceberg.
The transgressions against the American people don’t stop with merely using their hard-earned money to enrich their NGO allies and spread the gospel of wokeism to the four corners of the Earth under the guise of life-saving aid. They extend to siphoning public money to their allies, mounting multiple systematic campaigns of intimidation and censorship against conservatives for expressing their political beliefs, meddling in congressional legislation, and trying to utterly destroy a sitting president.
When they’re not busy squandering our tax dollars, they’re failing at their basic duties. Look no further than the federal response to Hurricane Helene last year or to the East Palestine train derailment in 2023. None of our governmental agencies work better now than they did 10 years ago, except perhaps in facilitating corruption. Few, if any, of the guilty officials ever face consequences for their betrayals of this nation. In fact, they’re often rewarded.
The modern administrative state has become so corrupt and unaccountable to the people that it makes the patronage system (otherwise known as the spoils system) that characterized 19th-century American politics look good by comparison. […]
— Read More: thefederalist.com
