EFFICIENCY MUST START WITH CONGRESS
Let’s begin from scratch. Say you might be involved the federal authorities is vulnerable to waste, fraud and abuse and must be saved underneath shut watch. You assume that as a result of it’s the federal government and never a personal firm with a revenue motive there’s much less effectivity. What do you do?
Your major constraint, the one which supersedes all others with no exceptions, is the US Structure, which supplies the ability of the purse to Congress. Congress creates each federal company, mandates their duties and approves their funding. If you’d like effectivity, it should begin with Congress.
And a president can’t determine on a whim to not spend cash Congress has allotted. We’ve been right here earlier than. After Richard Nixon withheld funds allotted by lawmakers, Congress handed the Impoundment Management Act of 1974 enshrining the authorized authority of Congress, not the president, to allocate spending.
As president, Trump was discovered to be in violation of the Act when he withheld help to Ukraine, a transfer that led to the primary of his two impeachments.
Though maintaining a cautious eye on spending is the purview of Congress, it’s loads to placed on members or its committees, as each are continually churning by elections and majority standing. Higher to create a congressional company as an alternative. Not like government businesses, which report back to the president, these businesses report back to Congress, similar to the Congressional Finances Workplace.
This new company would have the ability to audit each different authorities company and its suggestions would ideally have the ability of Congress, not like the flimsiness of DOGE, which has no authorized authority (even to exist, because it’s not being created by Congress!).
