Republicans on the Supreme Court are, it appears, planning to gut most of America’s regulatory agencies, in what could be the most consequential re-write of the protective “deep state” since it was largely created during the New Deal in the 1930s.
If they pull it off, they could destroy the ability of:
— the EPA to regulate pollutants,
— the USDA to keep our food supply safe,— the FDA to oversee drugs going onto the market,
— OSHA to protect workers,
— the CPSC to keep dangerous toys and consumer products off the market,
— the FTC to regulate monopolies,
— the DOT to come up with highway and automobile safety standards,
— the ATF to regulate guns,— the FDA to oversee drugs going onto the market,
— OSHA to protect workers,
— the CPSC to keep dangerous toys and consumer products off the market,
— the FTC to regulate monopolies,
— the DOT to come up with highway and automobile safety standards,
— the ATF to regulate guns,
— the FDA to oversee drugs going onto […]
This is much impactful than most will credit. The dismantling of parts of the administrative state will force Congress to do its job. That stated, Congress has been failing in its job for generations, its members unwilling to takes stands defending the actions of the Federal bureaucracy hiding behind unelected bureaucrats, thereby ceding power to the executive. This process of dismantlement will reveal to all how profoundly dysfunctional and impotent Congress actually is. I predict that trust in governmental institutions at all levels will sink even lower.