{"id":1976692,"date":"2023-07-18T19:59:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T23:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/libs-fret-over-trumps-plan-to-exert-presidential-authority-over-fourth-branch-of-government\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T20:03:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T00:03:26","slug":"libs-fret-over-trumps-plan-to-exert-presidential-authority-over-fourth-branch-of-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/libs-fret-over-trumps-plan-to-exert-presidential-authority-over-fourth-branch-of-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Libs worry about Trump&#8217;s control over &#8216;Fourth Branch&#8217; of government."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flibs-fret-over-trumps-plan-to-exert-presidential-authority-over-fourth-branch-of-government%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1976692&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former\u2064 President Donald \u2064Trump\u200c Plans to Reign\u200b in Unelected Federal\u200c Bureaucrats<\/h2>\n<p>According to former and\u200b current\u200b advisers, former President \u200b<a \u2063href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\"\u200b target=\"_blank\"\u200b rel=\"noopener\">Donald \u2063Trump<\/a>\u200d has\u2064 vowed\u200c to\u2063 assert\u2064 his \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-dem-oregon-governor-freed-hundreds-of-inmates-early-now-one-is-reportedly-person-of-interest-in-deaths-of-four-young-women\/\" title=\"Ex-Dem Oregon Governor Released Inmates Early; One Now Suspected in Deaths of Four Women.\">executive\u200d power<\/a> \u200cover \u200bfederal\u2063 agencies if \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ramaswamy-floats-naming-ted-cruz-and-mike-lee-as-next-conservative-supreme-court-justice\/\" title=\"Ramaswamy suggests Ted Cruz and Mike Lee for conservative SCOTUS justices.\">elected\u2062 president<\/a> in \u200c2024. Trump faced \u2062significant \u2062opposition from within\u200c the\u200c federal government during\u200d his \u200dtime in office \u2063and\u200d aims\u2064 to \u200baddress this \u2064issue by \u200bimplementing the \u200dunitary \u200cexecutive \u2063theory.<\/p>\n<p>This plan,\u2063 highlighted \u2062in\u200d a \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/17\/us\/politics\/trump-plans-2025.html\" \u2062target=\"_blank\" \u2063rel=\"noopener\">recent\u200c New York \u200dTimes \u200carticle<\/a>, has\u200c drawn\u2064 criticism from \u2064the\u2063 Left, who \u2062claim it \u2063is authoritarian.\u200c However, \u2064conservative policy leaders have praised\u200c the\u200b initiative.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u200c \u200b <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur current\u200c executive \u200dbranch,\u201d\u2062 former Trump \u200caide John McEntee\u200d told the\u200b Times, \u200d\u201cwas \u200cconceived of by liberals for the\u2063 purpose of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/libs-fret-over-trumps-plan-to-exert-presidential-authority-over-fourth-branch-of-government\/\" title=\"Libs worry about Trump's control over 'Fourth Branch' of government.\">promulgating liberal policies<\/a>.\u200c There\u200d is no\u200b way\u2063 to make the existing structure \u200dfunction \u200bin a\u200b conservative manner. It\u2019s\u2064 not \u200benough to get\u2063 the personnel right. What\u2019s \u2064necessary is a \u200bcomplete \u2063system\u200b overhaul.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prior \u200cto \u200bleaving office, \u200cTrump drafted an executive \u2063order\u200c that \u200cwould\u2062 have \u2064granted him \u2062review\u200b authority\u200b over\u200d regulatory \u200cactions \u200dby \u2063federal\u2062 agencies. Trump\u2064 and\u200b his allies \u200bargue that \u200bagencies, \u2064such as the \u2064Federal\u200b Trade\u200b Commission, \u2064have operated as a de facto\u2062 &#8220;fourth branch&#8221; \u2063of \u2063government.<\/p>\n<p>While some, \u2063like \u2064Anne\u200c Applebaum \u200dfrom The Atlantic, believe these\u200d plans would undermine American democracy, \u2063Trump, \u2064who is \u200dcurrently\u2064 leading\u2064 in polls \u200bfor the \u200d2024 Republican\u2063 presidential \u200bnomination, \u2064has already outlined similar intentions in\u200c a\u200d policy video from April\u2063 2023.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI \u2064will bring the independent regulatory\u2062 agencies, \u200csuch as \u200bthe FCC \u200band the\u200d FTC, back \u200dunder \u200cPresidential authority, as\u200b the\u200b Constitution demands. These agencies\u200d do not get to become a fourth branch \u2063of\u2063 government, issuing rules and\u200b edicts\u200b all by themselves. And \u200dthat\u2019s\u2063 what \u200dthey\u2019ve\u2064 been doing. \u200dWe will require\u2064 that they \u200csubmit\u2063 any\u2064 regulations \u200cthey\u2063 are\u200c considering for White House review,\u201d \u200dhe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/agenda47\/agenda47-liberating-america-from-bidens-regulatory-onslaught\"\u2063 target=\"_blank\"\u2062 rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a\u200b href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE\u200b DAILY\u200b WIRE\u2062 APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u200cNew York\u200d Times\u200d characterizes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/josh-hammer-is-the-deep-state-coming-after-joe-biden\/\" title=\"Josh Hammer: Is the Deep State Coming After Joe Biden?\">unitary executive theory<\/a> \u2063as a\u2064 rejection of traditional American legal \u2063principles like the separation of \u2064powers \u2062and checks and\u2062 balances.\u200d However, \u200cCenter \u200cfor\u200d Renewing America President Russ \u200dVought disputes\u200c this\u200b framing, stating\u200c that \u200cthe\u200b theory \u200bchallenges the\u200d notion\u200d of a\u2063 fourth \u2063branch\u200c of government that is not mentioned in\u200d the Constitution \u200dand is immune to\u2062 the will \u200dof voters.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n \u200c\u2062 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u200c hesitate to\u2064 take any issue with \u200bthe NYT article\u2063 bc \u200dof\u200b the sheer enjoyment of the ongoing liberal\u2064 freakout but\u200d this sentence\u2063 is totally false: \u2018The\u200c legal theory \u2064rejects\u200c the idea that the government\u2064 is composed\u2062 of \u200cthree\u2062 separate \u2062branches with \u200coverlapping\u200d powers to\u200c check &#038;\u200d balance each other,\u2019\u201d \u2064Vought said \u200bon Twitter. \u200c\u201cNo, it \u2064rejects the current \u2064governing \u2063consensus that a \u200dfourth branch, never mentioned \u200bin \u200dthe Constitution, can\u2064 be created out \u2062of whole cloth\u200d &#038; \u2062made immune \u200cfrom the \u2063wishes \u2062of voters.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump plans to curtail the authority of unelected federal bureaucrats if he wins the 2024 presidential election, as per his former and current advisers. Having encountered persistent opposition from the government during his tenure, Trump aims to assert executive control over federal agencies if granted a second term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1976693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1976693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}