EFFICIENCY MUST START WITH CONGRESS
Let’s begin from scratch. Say you’re involved the federal authorities is susceptible to waste, fraud and abuse and must be stored beneath 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 main constraint, the one which supersedes all others with no exceptions, is the US Structure, which provides the facility 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 resolve 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 assist 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 so much to placed on members or its committees, as each are continually churning by elections and majority standing. Higher to create a congressional company as a substitute. Not like govt companies, which report back to the president, these companies report back to Congress, similar to the Congressional Finances Workplace.
This new company would have the facility to audit each different authorities company and its suggestions would ideally have the facility of Congress, in contrast to the flimsiness of DOGE, which has no authorized authority (even to exist, because it’s not being created by Congress!).
