This is the “White House Competition Council.” Members include the heads of every government bureau and department you’ve ever heard of plus some you’ve never heard of in your life, like “the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.” The Competition Council “shall be led by the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council” whose name may or may not be Larry, Moe, or Curly. So how is Joe going to put his order about agencies with overlapping jurisdiction into effect? By creating another agency with overlapping jurisdiction! And talk about urgency... talk about quick and decisive action from a fast-on-its-feet government leadership... The White House Competition Council will meet twice a year. While we wait for the Competition Council to get seated (competing for a chair closest to the most prominent Stooge), let’s consider the broader issue... What is Joe Biden doing giving us 16 pages of orders without so much as a nod from Congress, a wink from the judiciary, or a peep from the electorate? Joe is not His Imperial Majesty. Joe is not a King or a Queen, certainly not an Ace, and barely a Jack. He’s the rooster crowing from atop the Washington, D.C. dung heap only by dint of a few votes from disgruntled ex-Trumpsters.
Unfortunately, Joe fails to point out one area of American life where there’s too much competition. Joe gives an order: “It is the policy of my Administration that, when agencies have overlapping jurisdiction, they should endeavor to cooperate fully in the exercise of their oversight authority...” This is accompanied by a list of agencies with overlapping jurisdiction, which, now that I’ve had five or six cups of coffee and gone to Yale, I’ll quote in full: [Such agencies] include the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Health and Human Services, The Department of Transportation, the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Maritime Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Surface Transportation Board. (And I promise not to make any other full quotations from the Executive Order on Promoting Competition... or readers will be competing to see who can kill me first.) So how is Joe going to put his order about agencies with overlapping jurisdiction into effect? By creating another agency with overlapping jurisdiction!
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