PROJECT 2025 - PART 7
BLOG DISCLAIMER
This blog was created as a public service.
It is a Cliff’s Notes version of the actual 900 pages of text found in PROJECT 2025.
It is not a commentary.
Executive Office of the President - Office of Management and Budget
By Russ Vought
[Bio from Wikipedia – BA Weaton College, JD GWU. Acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, 2019-20. Founder, Center for Renewing America which is focused on combating critical race theory. In February 2023, the Center published a paper calling for a “dormant NATO, wherein Europe is the primary security provider of the European front.” Jeffrey Clark is the Center’s director of litigation]
In its opening words, Article II of the U.S. Constitution makes it abundantly clear that “[t]he executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” Currently, the sprawling federal bureaucracy reflects the policy plans and preferences of a radical and supposedly “woke” faction of the country. The effectiveness of the EOP depends on the fundamental premise that it is the President’s agenda that should matter to the departments and agencies that operate under his constitutional authority and that, as a general matter, it is the President’s chosen advisers who have the best sense of the President’s aims and intentions, both with respect to the policies he intends to enact and with respect to the interests that must be secured to govern successfully on behalf of the American people. This chapter focuses on key features of and recommendations for several of the EOP's important components.
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET (OMB)
Properly understood, it is the President's air traffic control system with the ability and charge to ensure that all policy initiatives are flying in sync and with the authority to let planes take off and, at times, ground planes that are flying off course. OMB's key roles include:
1. Developing and enforcing budget and executing appropriations laws.
The Director of the OMB must view his job as the best, most comprehensive approximation of the President's mind as it pertains to the policy agenda. Federal monies for agencies have traditionally been signed by career officials or deputy associate directors. Rather, they should be signed by [politically appointed] Program Associate Directors on an installment basis so that allocations can be properly overseen for waste, fraud, and abuse and ensure consistency with the President's agenda and applicable laws. The six traditional divisions of OMB should be subdivided into more with the addition of Program Associate Directors for better oversight. The administrative policy of pay-as-you-go – PAYGO – should be part of enforcing fiscal responsibility.
GENERAL COUNSEL - In addition, many key considerations involved in enacting a president's agenda hinge on existing legal authorities. The director must ensure the appointment of a general counsel who is respected yet creative and fearless in his or her ability to challenge legal precedents that serve to protect the status quo.
MANAGEMENT – It is vital that the director and his political staff, not the careerists, drive these offices in pursuit of the President's actual priorities and not let them set their own agenda based on the wishes of the sprawling “good government” management community in and outside of government. These offices include:
1. The Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) – new policy and regulations concerning federal contracting and procurement… to push back against woke policies in corporate America.
2. The Office of Performance and Personnel Management (OPPM) – to establish and manage personnel policies and practices across the federal government.... To reflect the president's agenda.
3. The Office of Federal Financial Management (OFFM) – This office helps the director to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in federal programs.
4. The Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer (OFCIO) – federal government's use and adoption of Internet based technologies to improve government operations.
5. The Made in America Office (MIAO) – through the example and work of the Trump administration, President Biden established this office to centralize, carry out, and further develop the federal government’s Buy American and other Made in America commitments.
REGULATORY AND INFORMATION POLICY - OMB should review all regulatory actions with increased funding for this goal. The robust use of the Information Quality Act, The Paper Reduction Act, the Privacy Act, the Regulatory Accountability Act is important. The Congressional Review Act should also be used to allow the president to focus his rule making resources on major new regulatory reforms rather than devoting months or years to undoing the final rulemakings of the Biden administration.
[Bio from Wikipedia – BA Weaton College, JD GWU. Acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, 2019-20. Founder, Center for Renewing America which is focused on combating critical race theory. In February 2023, the Center published a paper calling for a “dormant NATO, wherein Europe is the primary security provider of the European front.” Jeffrey Clark is the Center’s director of litigation]
In its opening words, Article II of the U.S. Constitution makes it abundantly clear that “[t]he executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” Currently, the sprawling federal bureaucracy reflects the policy plans and preferences of a radical and supposedly “woke” faction of the country. The effectiveness of the EOP depends on the fundamental premise that it is the President’s agenda that should matter to the departments and agencies that operate under his constitutional authority and that, as a general matter, it is the President’s chosen advisers who have the best sense of the President’s aims and intentions, both with respect to the policies he intends to enact and with respect to the interests that must be secured to govern successfully on behalf of the American people. This chapter focuses on key features of and recommendations for several of the EOP's important components.
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET (OMB)
Properly understood, it is the President's air traffic control system with the ability and charge to ensure that all policy initiatives are flying in sync and with the authority to let planes take off and, at times, ground planes that are flying off course. OMB's key roles include:
1. Developing and enforcing budget and executing appropriations laws.
The Director of the OMB must view his job as the best, most comprehensive approximation of the President's mind as it pertains to the policy agenda. Federal monies for agencies have traditionally been signed by career officials or deputy associate directors. Rather, they should be signed by [politically appointed] Program Associate Directors on an installment basis so that allocations can be properly overseen for waste, fraud, and abuse and ensure consistency with the President's agenda and applicable laws. The six traditional divisions of OMB should be subdivided into more with the addition of Program Associate Directors for better oversight. The administrative policy of pay-as-you-go – PAYGO – should be part of enforcing fiscal responsibility.
GENERAL COUNSEL - In addition, many key considerations involved in enacting a president's agenda hinge on existing legal authorities. The director must ensure the appointment of a general counsel who is respected yet creative and fearless in his or her ability to challenge legal precedents that serve to protect the status quo.
MANAGEMENT – It is vital that the director and his political staff, not the careerists, drive these offices in pursuit of the President's actual priorities and not let them set their own agenda based on the wishes of the sprawling “good government” management community in and outside of government. These offices include:
1. The Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) – new policy and regulations concerning federal contracting and procurement… to push back against woke policies in corporate America.
2. The Office of Performance and Personnel Management (OPPM) – to establish and manage personnel policies and practices across the federal government.... To reflect the president's agenda.
3. The Office of Federal Financial Management (OFFM) – This office helps the director to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in federal programs.
4. The Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer (OFCIO) – federal government's use and adoption of Internet based technologies to improve government operations.
5. The Made in America Office (MIAO) – through the example and work of the Trump administration, President Biden established this office to centralize, carry out, and further develop the federal government’s Buy American and other Made in America commitments.
REGULATORY AND INFORMATION POLICY - OMB should review all regulatory actions with increased funding for this goal. The robust use of the Information Quality Act, The Paper Reduction Act, the Privacy Act, the Regulatory Accountability Act is important. The Congressional Review Act should also be used to allow the president to focus his rule making resources on major new regulatory reforms rather than devoting months or years to undoing the final rulemakings of the Biden administration.
Stay tuned for Part 8 - Executive Office of the President - National Security Council
As always - follow, comment, pass it on
No comments:
Post a Comment