There is no doubt that there is a very large federal bureaucracy. It probably needs some reorganizing and some parts should probably be ended. However, Donald Trump appears to be on a path of near total destruction.
It has been reported that he also wants to curtail many of the government programs from health care to the National Endowment for the Arts. NPR and PBS are also in his cross hairs.
Trump’s cabinet is studded with people who also fought to undermine the missions of the agencies they now lead. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt built his political career suing the agency. Education Secretary Betsy DeVoss has called public education a “dead end.” Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing, has no problem with proposals to slash housing. Rex Tillerson is in the process of laying off hundreds of people in the State Department. Trump has appointed lower level department heads who have fought many departments in the past. These department heads and leaders have dreamed of ending the very departments they are now leading.
- David Bernhardt, Deputy Interior Secretary. Former lawyer representing Statoil
- Erik Baptist, Senior Deputy General Counsel at the EPA. Former lobbyist for Energy API
- Susan Bodine, Head of Enforcement for the EPA. Former lobbyist for American Forest & Paper Products
- Nancy Beck, Deputy Assistant for the EPA’s chemical safety Office. Formerly employed by American Chemistry Council
- David Zatezalo, Head of the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Former lobbyist for Rhino Mining a coal mining company
- Joseph Otting, Head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Former CEO of OneWest Bank
Whose interests do you suppose they will be thinking about when they perform their jobs?
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Watching our country being destroyed day by day is heartbreaking.