Friday, December 20, 2024

Regs are not laws

As Doge begins its seemingly impossible task of trimming the fat from government it has the constitution on its side. The constitution clearly states that the legislative branch creates the laws and the executive branch enforces the laws. Over the past 80 years the executive branch has exceeded its authority and created regulations which have acted as laws. This has resulted in the expansion of the bureaucracy which expanded the government which expanded the cost. The Doge team can look at any regulation and declare it unconstitutional and this has recently been confirmed by the court. Yes, the Supreme Court recently ruled in the case "Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo" that federal agencies do not have broad authority to interpret ambiguous laws and essentially confirmed that bureaucrats cannot make regulations without clear congressional authorization, effectively overturning the long-standing precedent of "Chevron deference" which allowed courts to defer to agency interpretations of statutes; this significantly limits the power of bureaucrats to create regulations In essence if the congress has not approved a regulation it can be challenged. In recent years presidents have ended up spending money not approved by congress but congress did nothing about it. A recent case where congress stepped in was when Trump wanted to spend money on the wall and he had to get money from defense where is was approved.

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