(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Destroying Trump's Excuses for His Unqualified Appointments [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-11-20 Trump’s Casting A Reality Show, Not Building a Cabinet Most of Trump’s appointments lack any relevant experience at all. See the reality show cast of season 2, here: Trump Season 2 Cast Destroying Trump’s Fallacy That Only Business or Law Experience Is Needed to Run Agencies Here is why the agency heads are supposed to have expertise in their fields and why it is a fallacy and complete misunderstanding of government that the agency heads just need business experience and to root out waste. What Are Administrative Agencies and Why Were They Created? Administrative agencies were literally created because regular lawmakers (Congress) lacked the specialized knowledge in certain fields to pass good laws. Many laws were mostly ineffective because the lawmakers who drafted them lacked the specialized, expert knowledge needed for effective legislation. I'm a lawyer, but I cannot design complicated rules and regulations for rail systems because I lack the expertise in rail systems. Our government realized that some fields were so complicated that regular congresspeople without expertise were not writing the best laws because they did not understand the field sufficiently. There were so many legislative failures because of this which led to creating Administrative Agencies where the President would appoint EXPERTS in the field to oversee, lead the field, create specialized rules for the field, and create technical rules for the field. The entire reason administrative agencies were created was to get lawmaking in certain areas OUT of the hands of non-expert Congress people and have experts with specialized knowledge govern the field. They are literally supposed to have expertise in the field. It is literally why Administrative Agencies were created. Trump's appointments to the agencies have in many cases zero relevant experience and zero expertise in the field they they are going to create and pass laws to govern. This is exactly why agencies were created in the first place to get governing OUT of the hands of people who have no expertise in the field. And to have experts that the President can rely upon to set national policy and consult in disasters. If the agency head lacks expertise, they cannot effectively advise the President. Also, if tey lack expertise, they cannot effectively lead the agency or policy. What About the Argument that Although Trump's Appointees Have No Expertise in those Fields, They Have Unrelated Business or Law Experience and Will Cut Waste? General Accountability Office Well, we have a specific agency for that! Trump can appoint someone to the General Accountability Office who is an expert in budgets and rooting out waste. That is the literal job of that entire huge agency. The President literally appoints an expert in budgets and waste called the Controller General to find waste and cut it. The job of the GAO is to find ways for the government to work more efficiently. Trump will get to appoint all of the heads of that agency! Office of Management and Budget And the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the one who sets the budgets for all of the Administrative Agencies. The Agencies send budget requests to the Office of Management and Budget where the office examines the requests and makes sure that they align with the President's goals and policies. There is an entire agency that Trump will appoint the heads of to examine all agency budget requests and make sure that they are in line with whatever goals Trump sets! The President (Trump) appoints the entire leadership of the Office of Management and Budget - the Director, the Deputy Director, the Deputy Director for Management, and the administrators of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, and the Office of Federal Financial Management. The OMB (who Trump will appoint) examines the agency budget requests and then the OMB according to the Presidents' policies, creates a budget proposal for each agency to give to the President. The President then reviews the budget requests and makes changes and the PRESIDENT's OFFICE (Trump) submits what the President wants as the final budgets for each agency to Congress. Congress (the House of Representatives) And then Congress (the House of Representatives) is the literal purse strings of the government, not the Administrative Agencies. The President (Trump) submits to the House of Representatives the spending budget Trump wants. The House Committee on the Budget then creates the spending budget which goes up for vote in the House of Representative and the House passes the spending budgets for the government. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Also in terms of waste, the House has the Committee on Oversight and Accountability whose literal job it is to go after waste in government spending. And the House Committee on Appropriations also roots out waste. The House Committee on the Budget creates the final budget for government. All of which are controlled by the Republican Party. It is not the job of an agency head to cut waste. It is the job of an agency head to be an EXPERT in the field to help implement and create the best rules of practice, regulations, and technical requirements for the field they oversee. Trump's GAO, Trump's OMB, the office of the President, and the Republican House of Representatives are literally the ones controlling the budget and spending. 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