Category: Schedule F

Vought Laying Groundwork for Next GOP President to Neutralize Federal Swamp’s Bureaucracy

August 9, 2022
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News analysis Russ Vought, President Donald Trump’s former Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director, had a plan, but too little time left in 2020 to restore the bureaucracy as a neutral tool for ensuring that federal officials do what American voters want done by their government. But Vought will be ready from the get-go…

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What If People Actually Controlled the Government?

June 29, 2022
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Commentary Imagine, if you will, the following system. Government is managed by elected representatives who are in turn elected by the people. Government is further restrained by checks and balances between three branches, each of which is accountable ultimately to the people who live under the laws. Unlike the ancient system of government in which…

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The Astonishing Implications of Schedule F

June 27, 2022
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Commentary Two weeks before the 2020 general election, on Oct. 21, 2020, Donald Trump issued an executive order (E.O. 13957) on “Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service.” It sounds boring. Actually, it would have fundamentally changed, in the best possible way, the entire functioning of the administrative bureaucracy that rules this country in a way that…

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