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In an interview with Vivek Ramaswamy Presidential Candidate he said he plans to fire all of them including most of the redundant 3 letter agencies. Are U.S. presidents empowered to do that? Interview is on TimcastIRL on YT.

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Rick Perry in a presidential primary debate wanted to eliminate three government agencies but couldn't remember all three on live television. He later become head of the Department of Energy, the same agency which he wanted to eliminate but forgot during the debate years earlier.

This is grandstanding. The Federal government will have law enforcement and tax collection arms, whether you call them the FBI and IRS or something else.

Hmm. Maybe. But it isn't necessary. Federal law enforcement is a pretty novel thing. State institutions have parity. There's no technical reason not to go back to that, though it would be a rather radical restructuring.

The FBI was created in 1908. Since then, we've invented airplanes, interstate highways, and the Internet.

The US is far more connected than it used to be. It is much harder to treat everything as a matter for individual states. At the very least, state institutions need to coordinate -- exactly the kind of job for which a federal institution is ideal.

Then we created Department of Homeland Security ...

There will always be federal agencies regardless of the state agencies since there are differences between to state laws and federal laws.

This is not a cogent response. Differences between federal and state law are irrelevant. Per my last post, state institutions have parity.

https://www.vivek2024.com/truths/

Oof.

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