Throughout this week, the Washington Examiner’s Restoring America project will feature its latest series titled “Reforming the Deep State: Reining in the Federal Bureaucracy.” We invited some of the best policy minds in the conservative movement to speak to the issues of what waste, fraud, abuse, and unaccountability exist throughout the federal government and what still needs to be done. To learn more about the series, click here.
The Constitution created three branches of government: the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. For the past century, progressives in Congress have created a fourth branch composed of “independent agencies” and an unaccountable regulatory bureaucracy. This fourth branch is now often called the administrative state.
