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Radical idea here, revert the bureaucracy to the original patronage/spoils system. Remove any chance of a fifth column operating against the duly elected president’s policies. The constitution created the presidency as a unitary executive, the executive branch is literally embodied in one person, the president. Having a “professional civil service” that is untouchable (read: hard to fire) for insubordination thanks to congressional law and public sector collective bargaining contracts, is an unconstitutional usurpation of the power of the president.
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“Unitary Executive”. ..... that should be our legal standard for the entire executive branch
It should be, the bureaucracy was created to take orders from the president regarding execution of policy written by congress. It’s only in recent history that Congress has seceded a great deal of it’s rule making power to the executive branch. This is the perfect storm of unaccountable government, rules are being made by bureaucrats who are unelected and unaccountable to the president—and by extension not accountable to the people. The bureaucracy needs to be accountable to the president and the only way is to have a political bureaucracy that comes in and leaves with an administration.