The republic has been dying in darkness.
Like a parasite, the Senior Executive Service, U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has usurped the authority of our once great nation:
'Swamp' thwarts Trump with $1.9T ‘hidden tax’ in regulations
President Trump’s administration cut by almost two-thirds the average number of regulations issued for every law passed, but still the “hidden tax” imposed by the unelected bureaucracy was nearly $2 trillion, according to a new analysis. The Competitiveness Enterprise Institute said that the $1.9 trillion in regulation translated into a “burden” of $14,600 on every household, an amount so high that if the costs were a country, it would the ninth largest, just ahead of Canada. The huge number and choking impact on the nation shows just how big a battle Trump’s anti-regulation war faces. During the 2016 campaign and while in office he has railed against the Washington "swamp" that includes unelected federal regulators entrenched in the bureaucracy.
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., author of the just-released Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State, found that Trump has made good on his promise to cut regulations. He noted, for example, that Trump’s government cut the average number of regulations imposed for every new piece of legislation. The average is 27 rules, but the Trump administration cut that to 11 in 2018. Trump also reduced the regulations-filled pages of the Federal Register to a near low. What’s more, the Trump administration “withdrew or delayed” 1,579 Obama rules that were in the pipeline. And, he noted, the Office of Management and Budget reported that agencies cut $33 billion in the “regulatory budget,” and it anticipates additional savings in fiscal year 2019 of another $18 billion.
Still, the costs of existing regulations are enormous, said Crews, vice president for policy and a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “Despite the progress made on regulatory reform under President Trump, American consumers and businesses are still on the hook for the ‘hidden tax’ of federal regulation,” said Crews. “And that progress is further threatened by President Trump’s own regulatory impulses on issues ranging from antitrust enforcement to trade restrictions to food and drug matters, and more,” he added.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/swamp-thwarts-trump-with-1-9-trillion-hidden-tax-in-regulations
Ten Thousand Commandments 2019
https://www.scribd.com/document/409009519/Ten-Thousand-Commandments-2019#from_embed
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/
“THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT — USES SES, SERCO, AND OPIC AS PORTALS INTO UNSPEAKABLE CORRUPTION”
“SES & OPIC CONSTITUTES AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL SECRET GOVERNMENT, BUT IT’S WORSE. OTHER GOVERNMENTS HELP DRIVE THE SES SEDITION BUS.”
“The Senior Executive Services (SES) includes over 8,000 Obama stay-behind senior federal employees in all agencies of the U.S. government. They openly state that they cannot be fired by the President, which means they are not accountable to our Republic and have a law unto themselves. See our previous post Obama hired them. Trump cannot fire them. So they say. It went viral 30 days ago with an estimated 500,000 views. The story is out.”
http://themillenniumreport.com/2018/04/how-ses-serco-opic-do-the-dirty-work-of-the-shadow-government/
“The Senior Executive Service (SES) lead America’s workforce. As the
keystone
of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, the SES was established to “…ensure that the executive management of the Government of the United States is responsive to the needs, policies, and goals of the Nation and otherwise is of the highest quality.” These leaders possess well-honed executive skills and share a broad perspective on government and a public service commitment that is grounded in the Constitution.”
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/
“President Trump is planning to use his executive powers to remove a federal agency, in line with his administration's goal of cutting what it sees as wasteful spending and inefficiencies, the Washington Post reports.
The big picture: By the fall, the Office of Personnel Management anticipates an executive order that will break up the agency and, at first, assign its responsibilities to 3 different departments. The administration reportedly does not intend to lay off any of its 5,565 employees, but will eventually shrink its workforce through retirements and unfilled vacancies.”
https://www.axios.com/trump-office-personal-management-dismantle-838b05d9-4425-408a-a099-7cbd60ee49ab.html