Fox Business host says firing thousands of career civil servants will be “a renaissance in America”
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From the November 21, 2024, edition of Fox News' The Story with Martha MacCallum
MARTHA MACCALLUM (HOST): I just want to read one other quote from this Wall Street Journal piece. Listen to this carefully, "Most government enforcement decisions and discretionary expenditures are not made by the democratically elected president or even his political appointees but by millions of unelected, unappointed civil servants within government agencies who view themselves as immune from firing thanks to civil service protections." How are they going to do this?
DAGEN MCDOWELL (GUEST): So -- I encourage everyone to read this Elon and Vivek piece --
MACCALLUM: Absolutely, and then read it again to understand how this is going to go.
MCDOWELL: So, this is, in their words, their north star for reform is what you hit on, is the U.S. Constitution and it focuses on two recent critical Supreme Court decisions. It is West Virginia v. the EPA and then Loper Bright. And this, in essence, these two decisions say government agencies cannot impose regulations dealing with major economic and policy questions unless Congress has authorized them to do so. And Loper Bright more recently, again, said you cannot -- the federal agencies, the courts cannot defer to them for their own rule making authority. It is Congress who is in charge.
So, they are literally planning to go in, find all of these regulations, potentially going back years and years and years, that have grown out of this vast, bureaucratic regulatory state that were not authorized by Congress and just get rid of them. And that leads them toward all of the individuals who should not be working in the federal government.
And Martha, I cannot even comprehend how incredible a burden this will lift off of every single business in this nation, particularly small businesses. This is a renaissance in America.