The President is the chief executive of the United States and is supposed to control all the government agencies operating inside of it. Theoretically, Trump has the power to walk into any government office and start doing whatever jobs he wants to do himself. There is no reason why he can’t hire people to do this for him instead. He also has the power to grant security clearances to whoever he wants to. The chief executive of the US has a lot of power.
Trump is doing an end-run around the old chain of command because US case law has set the legal precedent that government employees can’t be fired at-will. This is why Trump is offering to buyout government employees instead of just firing them. This is also why Trump has a separate team directly accessing the systems at the treasury and other departments. If he just sent word down the chain of command to ‘find government corruption and spending on stupid things and eliminate it’ nothing would get done. Much of that preexisting, unfirable chain of command is either incompetent or participating in the corruption themselves.
Obviously if the new CEO of a private company wanted to shakeup the old system he would just fire the old workforce like Musk did with Twitter.
I am not sure what people are disagreeing with here. The only factual claims I see are “the preexisting chain of command is incompetent or corrupt”, which I agree with (on incompetence), that “the president has a lot of power”, “is supposed to control all the agencies”, and “if the new CEO of a private company…”. None of these seem incorrect to me. I’ve strong-upvoted in both ways.
As I see it, the large majority of government employees are neither incompetent nor corrupt, and the Federal government overall works extremely well given all of the tasks that it’s asked to do. The president is supposed to execute the will of the legislature according to the law (which he isn’t, he’s shutting down agencies that Congress has created and subverting other agencies to not do what Congress has instructed them to do). Musk did a bad job of it with Twitter (it’s less profitable now than it was when he bought it, last time I checked the data) and it’s a bad policy for a new CEO coming in with goals other than “destroy the old system because I think a well functioning system is bad”.
Trump is radically reinterpreting the job of the executive branch to include “determine which laws I want to exist and only enforce those”, which is a massive expansion of executive power.
If Congress passed laws for all of these things, I think it would be a bad choice, but at least it wouldn’t be an unconstitutional coup.
The President is the chief executive of the United States and is supposed to control all the government agencies operating inside of it. Theoretically, Trump has the power to walk into any government office and start doing whatever jobs he wants to do himself. There is no reason why he can’t hire people to do this for him instead. He also has the power to grant security clearances to whoever he wants to. The chief executive of the US has a lot of power.
Trump is doing an end-run around the old chain of command because US case law has set the legal precedent that government employees can’t be fired at-will. This is why Trump is offering to buyout government employees instead of just firing them. This is also why Trump has a separate team directly accessing the systems at the treasury and other departments. If he just sent word down the chain of command to ‘find government corruption and spending on stupid things and eliminate it’ nothing would get done. Much of that preexisting, unfirable chain of command is either incompetent or participating in the corruption themselves.
Obviously if the new CEO of a private company wanted to shakeup the old system he would just fire the old workforce like Musk did with Twitter.
I am not sure what people are disagreeing with here. The only factual claims I see are “the preexisting chain of command is incompetent or corrupt”, which I agree with (on incompetence), that “the president has a lot of power”, “is supposed to control all the agencies”, and “if the new CEO of a private company…”. None of these seem incorrect to me. I’ve strong-upvoted in both ways.
I disagree with basically all of them.
As I see it, the large majority of government employees are neither incompetent nor corrupt, and the Federal government overall works extremely well given all of the tasks that it’s asked to do. The president is supposed to execute the will of the legislature according to the law (which he isn’t, he’s shutting down agencies that Congress has created and subverting other agencies to not do what Congress has instructed them to do). Musk did a bad job of it with Twitter (it’s less profitable now than it was when he bought it, last time I checked the data) and it’s a bad policy for a new CEO coming in with goals other than “destroy the old system because I think a well functioning system is bad”.
Trump is radically reinterpreting the job of the executive branch to include “determine which laws I want to exist and only enforce those”, which is a massive expansion of executive power.
If Congress passed laws for all of these things, I think it would be a bad choice, but at least it wouldn’t be an unconstitutional coup.
Re twitter’s profitability, Musk about doubled EBITDA despite revenue halving, i.e. he more than tripled EBITDA margin
https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-x-doubled-ebitda-since-2022-takeover-report/amp
Well okay then :)! You giving a disagree-vote makes a lot of sense. Thanks for explaining.