As we've reported on a number of occasions, the President's agenda has been repeatedly stymied by non-elected, bureaucratic officials intent on maintaining the status quo in D.C.
The latest example is perhaps the most troubling. Earlier this year Trump issued an executive order easing enforcement of Obamacare regulations forcing religious organizations like Little Sisters of the Poor to pay for employee health plans covering contraception and abortion-inducing drugs.
But this week The Daily Signal reported that the Justice Department has yet to act on that order, and religious organizations have been left out to dry:
Advocates for religious liberty are dismayed that little has changed with respect to the Obamacare contraceptive mandate, even after President Donald Trump signed a religious freedom executive order earlier this year.
“I believe the president is committed to religious freedom and that Attorney General [Jeff] Sessions is a good man. But their goals simply haven’t played out,” Douglas Wilson, CEO of the Catholic Benefits Association, told The Daily Signal.
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“The mandate is a burden on employers, individuals, and religious organizations who, because of their beliefs concerning the protection of unborn human life, are faced with the decision to violate sincerely held religious or moral beliefs, pay steep fines, or forgo offering or obtaining health insurance entirely,” Israel told The Daily Signal in an email.
“It is time for the Trump administration to make good on the promise made four months ago and ensure that these groups’ ‘long ordeal’ with the contraception mandate comes to an end,” she added.
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“The Justice Department is not doing what the president promised the Little Sisters of the Poor in the Rose Garden,” Alvarado told The Daily Signal. “DOJ negotiations have been going on for three months. Seven months into this administration, we expected something different [from the Trump administration] than what we got from the Obama administration.”
The federal government is supposed to be controlled by elected officials, men and women who are accountable to the will of the people. But this administration has highlighted the fact that D.C. is really controlled by the "fourth branch": the bureaucratic web of entrenched officials who have no regard for what We the People want or need.
A Convention of States can change that structure and decimate the "fourth branch." By proposing constitutional amendments that limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, a Convention of States can effectively strip the authority of federal agencies and return decision-making power to the people and the states.
