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WHO Controls the Executive Branch?
Who Controls the Executive Branch? | Power Line
August 26, 2018 -- Under the Constitution, the President exercises all executive authority. But we do not live under the government that is described in the Constitution. We live in a society that is dominated by the Fourth Branch of government, the unelected bureaucracy that is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution. And the Fourth Branch is increasingly declaring its independence from the elected officials to whom it ostensibly reports–that is to say, from the voters. Thus the current spectacle in Washington, D.C., where the federal bureaucracy, all of which nominally reports to President Trump, is largely dedicated to overthrowing him. The Department of Justice is the most notorious instance, but Mark Krikorian illuminates more examples of *independent* bureaucracies. The subject is the murder of Mollie Tibbetts in Iowa....
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In this snapshot of 7 paragraphs, is THE SWAMP, and just about every politician of both parties we've sent to Washington the past 4 decades have allowed it to continue to exist.
Evidence shows that the killer filed tax returns, presumably using the stolen identity. Was the victim of this identity theft notified that another tax return was being filed in his name? Again, no — the IRS refuses cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security, even when it knows the filer is an illegal alien (as when a filer provides an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number on the tax return but has a different, stolen number on the W-2 form).
So the Social Security Administration and the IRS are not cooperating in the enforcement of federal law, which is the prime duty of the executive branch, according to Article II of the Constitution. President Trump runs both of those agencies.
I think it's time for Trump to immediately summon the IRS Commissioner to the White House to explain why this persists and their refusing to unmask the identity thieves, most of whom are presumably illegal aliens. The federal government should be devoted to stopping criminal activities, not facilitating them.
Who Controls the Executive Branch? | Power Line
August 26, 2018 -- Under the Constitution, the President exercises all executive authority. But we do not live under the government that is described in the Constitution. We live in a society that is dominated by the Fourth Branch of government, the unelected bureaucracy that is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution. And the Fourth Branch is increasingly declaring its independence from the elected officials to whom it ostensibly reports–that is to say, from the voters. Thus the current spectacle in Washington, D.C., where the federal bureaucracy, all of which nominally reports to President Trump, is largely dedicated to overthrowing him. The Department of Justice is the most notorious instance, but Mark Krikorian illuminates more examples of *independent* bureaucracies. The subject is the murder of Mollie Tibbetts in Iowa....
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In this snapshot of 7 paragraphs, is THE SWAMP, and just about every politician of both parties we've sent to Washington the past 4 decades have allowed it to continue to exist.
Evidence shows that the killer filed tax returns, presumably using the stolen identity. Was the victim of this identity theft notified that another tax return was being filed in his name? Again, no — the IRS refuses cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security, even when it knows the filer is an illegal alien (as when a filer provides an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number on the tax return but has a different, stolen number on the W-2 form).
So the Social Security Administration and the IRS are not cooperating in the enforcement of federal law, which is the prime duty of the executive branch, according to Article II of the Constitution. President Trump runs both of those agencies.
I think it's time for Trump to immediately summon the IRS Commissioner to the White House to explain why this persists and their refusing to unmask the identity thieves, most of whom are presumably illegal aliens. The federal government should be devoted to stopping criminal activities, not facilitating them.