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A FAQ that #DOGE created for agency heads showed that even team members did not feel confident in their #powers.

In one…draft FAQ, a question — posed from the perspective of an agency head — asks, “Under what authority are you directing us to do this?”

Beneath the question is one word highlighted in yellow: “EO,” referring to #Trump’s #ExecutiveOrder. Next to the acronym, in a set of brackets, there is a single character apparently questioning whether such an order would be sufficient: “[?]”

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The independent structure of those agencies has been a central part of how #Congress has set up the administrative state since the New Deal. But #RussVought sees the modern structure of government as a theft of the president’s *rightful* #powers.

“What we’re trying to do is identify the pockets of #independence & seize them,” #Vought said at the time, adding of the #FederalReserve: “It’s very hard to square the #Fed’s independence with the Constitution.”

#law#democracy#autocracy
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