Recently, DOGE has bragged about terminating 89 contracts worth a collective $881 million at the Institute for Education Sciences at the US Department of Education.| goodscience.substack.com
The CFPB has long operated in an opaque and duplicative fashion that has left it unaccountable to congressional oversight. At best, its functions are duplicative and unnecessary, and at worst, its operations have become increasingly hostile toward the hardworking people and businesses left in the wake of its weaponized regulatory and enforcement actions.| The Center for Renewing America
From immigration to family policy, inaccurate and missing federal data undermine major policy reforms| commonplace.org
we do a little government efficiency| www.secondbest.ca
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.| The White House
What's a blue ribbon commission good for anyway?| www.statecraft.pub
Since the Founding, it has been understood that Article II vests the President with authority to decline to spend the full amount of an appropriated fund.| The Center for Renewing America
“We now have an imperial Congress”| www.statecraft.pub
Defenders of the Impoundment Control Act misunderstand the power of the purse, overread Supreme Court precedent, and fail to address unbroken Executive impoundment practice and congressional acquiescence.| The Center for Renewing America
"Nobody ever won awards by making their budget smaller"| www.statecraft.pub
"We might have given the White House more confidence than was valid"| www.statecraft.pub
You’ve heard me talk about crash-only programming, right? It’s a programming paradigm for critical infrastructure systems, where there is — by design — no graceful way to shut down. A program can only crash and try to recover from a crashed state, which might well be impossible. I came up with a term for the human version: beef-only thinking. | ribbonfarm