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Congress makes lots of rules about how the executive can wield power: * FOIA tells the executive branch when/how to share documents. * APA tells executive age
by advisedwang 2y ago
Congress makes lots of rules about how the executive can wield power:
* FOIA tells the executive branch when/how to share documents.
* APA tells executive agencies what they have to do to make a rule.
* Congress gives line item budgets, and the executive doesn't get to reassign funds.
* Executive agencies must submit to audits from GAO (within congress)
It's perfectly reasonable for congress to limit how executive agency heads can be hired/fired too. After all, it's agencies that congress enacted and gave power too, and for legitimiate reasons that congress has.
- NickC25 2y agoThere's no more FOIA - Musk had their entire office fired and disbanded.
- advisedwang 2y agoThere is no central FOIA office. Each agency has is responsible for their own FOIA requests. IF you are referring to this news story [1] That was just the FOIA office at OPM. [1] https://www.commondreams.org/news/cnn-foia-office-of-personnel-management https://www.commondreams.org/news/cnn-foia-office-of-personn...
- daveguy 2y agoYeah, don't be so hard on Musk and Trump. They're destroying oversight agency by agency, not all at once. Starting with the agency in charge of HR oversight.
- grandempire 2y ago> It's perfectly reasonable for congress to limit how executive agency heads can be hired/fired too. In some limited employment law sense , maybe. The question is who gives these people orders? Who do they work for? And the answer can’t be themselves.
- kelnos 2y agoWhy is that the question? I think it's clear that some of them work for the president, and the president (perhaps filtered through cabinet members and others) tells them what to do. But that doesn't mean that Congress can't put limits on when and how the president can fire them. That isn't necessarily the case for all officials. For example, I believe Congress can't prevent the president from firing a member of the cabinet. But that doesn't mean the president can do whatever he wants to anyone.
- advisedwang 2y agoIt's akin to how the board of directors doesn't let the CEO fire a companies auditors.