Why They Got Rid of Trump (Jeffrey Tucker, Brownstone Institute, 27 June 2022)
Skip to content Search Menu HOME ABOUT ARTICLES BOOKS CONTACT SUBSCRIBE DONATE SHOP BROWNSTONE » BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE ARTICLES » THE ASTONISHING IMPLICATIONS OF SCHEDULE F The Astonishing Implications of Schedule F BY JEFFREY A. TUCKER JUNE 27, 2022 HISTORY , POLICY 8 MINUTE READ SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL Two weeks before the 2020 general election, on October 21, 2020, Donald Trump issued an executive order (E.O. 13957) on “Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service.” It sounds boring. Actually, it would have fundamentally changed, in the best possible way, the entire functioning of the administrative bureaucracy that rules this country in a way that bypasses both the legislative and judicial process, and has ruined the checks and balances inherent in the US Constitution. The administrative state for the better part of a century, and really dating back to the Pendleton Act of 1883, has designed policy, made policy, structured policy, implemented policy, and inte