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What’s Next for the Woke Bureaucrats in the Administrative State?

December 9, 2024 state, Next, What's, bureaucrats, Woke., administrative0 comment

President-elect Donald Trump poses a serious threat to the woke bureaucrats and their left-wing allies who have injected their ideology into the administrative state, but these activists won’t be giving up easily. As Trump staffs up for a second term, the bureaucrats have hatched at least three strategies to oppose him: returning to the left-wing nonprofit sphere to act as a government-in-waiting; passing new regulations to cement their ideology into the rules before Trump can reverse them; and burrowing into the bureaucracy to oppose him from within, the same way…

Biden Bureaucrats Quietly Increase Federal Government’s Control Over Health Care

December 7, 2021 bureaucrats, Over, Biden, increase, Control, federal, Government's, health, care, Quietly0 comment

Throughout the first decade of the 21st century, conservatives in state capitals and in Congress supported a balanced approach of increasing health insurance coverage while granting states flexibility to design sustainable Medicaid programs for low-income residents that include personal responsibility. States enjoyed broad flexibility to recreate Medicaid programs that reflected what was practicable and achievable. The Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, went in the opposite direction and Congress passed it on a strictly partisan basis. Obamacare took away states’ authority to regulate insurance markets. Health care should not…