President Trump has abandoned plans to eliminate the Office of Personnel Management, according to a report from the Washington Post.
Trump had announced in April his intention to eliminate the duplicative, 5,500-person agency and divide its responsibilities among the White House and the General Services Administration. But he's since backtracked on the plan, in part due to bi-partisan pressure from legislators and bureaucrats.
They claimed Trump's idea wasn't concrete enough and have insisted that the plan be moved to an "independent study committee." For those unfamiliar with the machinations of the federal government, that simply means the legislation will never been seen again.
The President's reversal is frustrating, but here's the worst part: if eliminated, the OPM would have been the first federal agency to be dissolved since World War II. That means the federal government has done nothing but grow in the last 70 years. Technology has changed, our nation's needs and priorities have evolved, and the national debt has exploded, but Washington, D.C? It hasn't gotten rid of even a single federal agency.
It's time to force D.C. to take a hard look at the alphabet soup of useless, duplicative federal agencies. But the forces in Washington are too powerful for any one president, congressman, or judge to reduce the size of the federal government. If it hasn't happened in the last 70 years, it isn't going to.
That's why we need a solution that doesn't rely on officials inside the D.C. beltway. We need a solution powered by the states and the people, which is exactly what we have in Article V of the Constitution.
Article V allows the states to call a Convention of States for the purpose of proposing constitutional amendments. These amendments can shrink the size and scope of the federal government, instantly eliminating useless federal agencies and forcing our national officials to focus on only those topics expressly mentioned in the Constitution.
The President has tried his best, but Washington isn't getting any smaller. We need a more powerful solution. We need a Convention of States.
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