You report to me : accountability for the failing administrative state / David Bernhardt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernhardt, David Longly, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Public administration--United States.

Public administration.

Physical Description:

264 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Encounter Books, 2023.

Summary:

"Only a short while ago, it was unimaginable that our nation would face a baby formula shortage facilitated by a bureaucratic delay, or witness the national massive embarrassment of flawed military and diplomatic action, such as the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Yet, our leaders and our federal agencies consistently fail the American people, despite the massive growth of these institutions. When David Bernhardt became Secretary of the Interior in the Trump Administration, he witnessed the full dysfunction of our federal agencies and learned that America's sprawling civil service was often unresponsive to the will of the nation's chief executive. In fact, agency staff aligned with the ideology of one political party often worked to actively "resist" the other. Meanwhile, our elected officials in Congress happily punted significant questions of public policy to those unaccountable agencies. In You Report to Me, Bernhardt provides a firsthand chronicle of how the bureaucratic swamp really works and reveals how unaccountable power has quietly concentrated in the administrative state over the last two decades. Drawing on his experiences working under two administrations, Bernhardt details how President Trump's enabling leadership revealed a path for curtailing the administrative state in the future. You Report to Me calls on America's leaders to turn off autopilot and retake control of this ever-multiplying, unaccountable federal bureaucracy before it completely destroys the Founders' vision of a government based on the consent of the governed"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Growth of the federal government

Unaccountable bureaucracy

Unelected rule-makers

The enforcers

Absent judges and weak Congress

The chief executive

Draining the swamp

In the trenches of a federal agency: driving change as a political appointee.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bernhardt, David Longly. You report to me.

ISBN:

9781641773300

1641773308

OCLC:

1340645620