A baby formula shortage and flawed military actions, like the withdrawal from Afghanistan, have exposed the failures of our federal agencies, despite their growth. David Bernhardt, as Secretary of the Interior during the Trump Administration, witnessed the dysfunction within these agencies, where staff often resisted the will of the nation's chief executive, aligning instead with a single political ideology. Elected officials in Congress frequently deferred significant policy questions to these unaccountable agencies. In You Report to Me, Bernhardt offers a firsthand account of the bureaucratic swamp's inner workings and how unaccountable power has accumulated in the administrative state over the past two decades. Drawing from his experiences in two administrations, he illustrates how President Trump's leadership provided a framework for reducing the administrative state's influence. Bernhardt urges America's leaders to reclaim control over this expanding federal bureaucracy before it undermines the Founders' vision of a government that derives its power from the consent of the governed.
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