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The creation of presidential reorganization authority was foreshadowed with the passage of the Overman Act in 1918, which allowed the president to consolidate government agencies, though abolishing any specific department was prohibited.
First fully extended in 1932, presidential reorganization authority has been authorized on 16 occasions.
The Reorganization Act of 1949 was the last full statute enacted from scratch until the Reorganization Act of 1977; reorganizations occurring between the 1949 and 1977 statutes took the form of amendment and extension of the 1949 law.
The Reorganization Act of 1939 defined the reorganization plan as its own kind of presidential directive. Previously, the delegated authority had been exercised using executive orders.
As of 2017, the last major reorganization of the government using presidential reorganization authority was during the administration of Dwight Eisenhower.
All subsequent cases of the invocation of presidential reorganization authority has been to make more minor, corrective adjustments.
The last reorganization authority was passed by Congress in 1984, although there have been proposals to reinstate it since then.
In 2002 George W. Bush requested the president be granted permanent reorganization authority. No such authorization was extended.
Also in 2002, the National Commission on the Public Service proposed extending presidential reorganization authority to substantially restructure the executive branch which, it contended, had become incoherent in the level of overlapping jurisdiction and different management structures.
During the presidency of Barack Obama, Obama requested reorganization authority from Congress which he said he would use to restructure the Department of Commerce, followed by less specific modifications to other agencies. Under Obama’s plan, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration would have been transferred to the Department of the Interior while the rest of the Department of Commerce would be merged with the Small Business Administration and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and renamed. The authorization was not granted. – Thanks, Wikipedia!
There is a right and wrong way to go about reorganizing government entities, and what is happening under Musk, falls in the wrong way category. Much of what he is doing will most likely be deemed unconstitutional, when it gets to the Judicial branch.
After all, that is what dictators do.
Realizing that he might not be allowed to utilize the presidential authority (without Congressional approval), Trump decides to just ignore the legislative branch totally.
The Republicans have the majority of seats in the House and the Senate. Perhaps, the president is NOT confident that a majority of members of Congress from his own party will simply allow the king to do whatever he wants to. Some of the Republican Congress persons are smart enough to realize, that sooner or later, they will need to face their constituents to explain why their world went to crap under their watch.
Trump will be gone after this cycle is done, but Republican Congress persons hoping to extend their political career won’t have the luxury of running away.
Ruminati 