Presidential Power Hijacked By Bureaucracy?

The Trump Administration may be courting lawsuits over dismantling the Washington machine, but maybe it’s the price we all have to pay to restore the President’s Article II Constitutional power hijacked by Congress & the federal bureaucracy it’s expanded.

The WSJ’s editorial board suggested as much when it recently opined, Trump’s “bold order putting ‘independent agencies’ under White House control echoes the Founders.” The editors sounded as if lauding No. 47 “trying to [re]assert control over the entire executive branch of government, for better or worse. His latest effort is an executive order … that imposes new White House supervision over so-called independent agencies like the Securities & Exchange Commission. THIS COULD BE A CONSTITUTIONAL WATERSHED.” That’s because the federal government, starting with the Progressive Era of the early 20thcentury and President Woodrow Wilson who “disliked the Constitution and wanted government by bureaucratic experts shielded from political control.” That’s why, we’re told, we now have “government alphabet soup of the SEC, FCC, FTC, FEC, CFTC, CFPB, FERC, FCIC and more.

The WSJ editors concluded: “This wasn’t part of the original constitutional design.”

Davd Soul