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White House releases sweeping proposal to reorganize government
The Hill ^ | 06/21/18 | Peter Sullivan

Posted on 06/21/2018 10:00:12 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

The White House on Thursday unveiled a sweeping plan to reorganize how the federal government is structured, including controversial proposals to impose work requirements on assistance programs.

“Businesses change all the time,” said White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney. “Government doesn't, and one of the things you get when you hire a businessman to become president is you bring this attitude from the private sector.”

The plan touches a wide range of agencies, but one of its main proposals is to move the food stamp program, officially known as SNAP, out of the Department of Agriculture and into the Department of Health and Human Services. That department would then be renamed the Department of Health and Public Welfare.

A new Council on Public Assistance would then oversee programs gathered in one place, including food stamps and Medicaid, and have the power to impose uniform work requirements in those programs, a move strongly opposed by Democrats.

The reorganization plan faces tough odds in Congress, where even aside from the dispute over work requirements, any reorganization faces opposition from congressional committees that could lose power if their jurisdictions change.

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To: yesthatjallen

reorganization faces opposition from congressional committees that could lose power if their jurisdictions change.

Well, there you have it in a nutshell.


41 posted on 06/21/2018 12:08:36 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: yesthatjallen
would then be renamed the Department of Health and Public Welfare.

The word "Welfare" should be scrubbed.

42 posted on 06/21/2018 1:04:45 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: yesthatjallen

“.........congressional committees that could lose power if their jurisdictions change.”

Tough sh!t.


43 posted on 06/21/2018 1:16:39 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~ There needs to be a quieting of the screaming lambs.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Here’s the plan:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Government-Reform-and-Reorg-Plan.pdf


44 posted on 06/21/2018 3:59:38 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: yesthatjallen

.……..I would like to see all The Trumps throw their considerable weight and skills behind the Article 5 Convention of the States.

As John Adams said to his fellow Declaration of Independence delegates...………………”it’s a revolution gentleman, somebody has to get pissed off”.

To a certainty, reorganizing the bloated federal government will piss a lot of leachers off!


45 posted on 06/21/2018 4:40:43 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: Mears

“Tech schools? Bringing back electives in HS such as auto shop, welding, etc.”

—It never left many schools,including the one that my kids attended.


Our high school offers a couple of tech classes, but you can sign up for classes at the regional trade school, and the high school will bus you over there every afternoon for free. You get high school credit. People can take everything from welding to veterinary assistant, and office skills. It makes sense because not every school needs to own all the equipment; the schools in the region share access to the regional trade school.


46 posted on 06/21/2018 4:45:52 PM PDT by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: married21

Sharing facilities makes absolute sense——the school my kids went to happened to be very large.

Another school in our area has kids from many towns.

The Aggie.

http://www.norfolkaggie.org/

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47 posted on 06/21/2018 5:11:15 PM PDT by Mears
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To: yesthatjallen
That department would then be renamed the Department of Health and Public Welfare.

And the need for such a Department is based on what section or philosophy of the US Constitution? Must be "the good and plenty clause" as spoken by the Honorable John Conyers (RAT-Mich).


48 posted on 06/21/2018 6:00:12 PM PDT by Cheerio
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To: Cobra64

Two departments he wants to eliminate. Two step process: Merge, then eliminate.

Ah Ha, that; genius!


49 posted on 06/21/2018 7:56:23 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: Taiku

Because congress created these executive branches and funds them. They are codified by law...not regulations.


50 posted on 06/21/2018 10:54:32 PM PDT by I got the rope
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To: TBP

The only point of an education is to get a job.
Therefore the two must be linked technically labor should be directing education.
Treating education like they current a treated as a vacation before a job is a disaster economically speaking.
Current colleges in public schools under the current grant program are completely aimless.

Americans are not being trained for the jobs that are available.


51 posted on 06/22/2018 6:10:11 AM PDT by Monorprise
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To: patriotsoul

That would be extremely helpful. Most of the jobs are going unfilled out there are jobs that rely upon tech skills.

We don’t have Labor shortages in English, women’s studies, or even psychology yet schools are directing most of their students do these programs.

On the other hand we have enormous labor shortages and Plumbing and electrical engineering.


52 posted on 06/22/2018 6:12:47 AM PDT by Monorprise
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To: Monorprise
The only point of an education is to get a job.

No, it's not. It's to create well-rounded citizens. Part of that may be employability, but it's much more than that. There is a reason we teach the humanities.

Marco Rubio was right when he said that "we need more welders and fewer philosophers" but we do need philosophers, poets, artists, playwrights, and the like. And we need an audience that has learned to understand and appreciate their work.

Education is to promote a well-rounded citizenry that thinks more creatively and understands the precepts that underlie our society and its values, not just to be vocational training.

If you merge education and labor, you move towards an educational system that is just vocational training, and that is not a society, a polity, capable of understanding and defending liberty.

53 posted on 06/22/2018 10:53:53 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: rarestia

How many departments were established by law? Those would need concurrence of the Congress. But, in general, you are correct about the power of the Executive to organize itself.


54 posted on 06/22/2018 11:30:10 AM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: Cen-Tejas

Adams is the last man to have said such a thing.


55 posted on 06/22/2018 11:33:52 AM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: TBP

You are correct. Getting a job is one of the least important features of education. We need people who have learned how to THINK. If they have learned the jobs will take care of themselves. Or the person can take care of himself.

Now the inability to THINK is the major problem in the job market. Applicants can’t even read and write much less THINK. And Mathematics is worse than a foreign language.

Then there is the fact that we don’t even know what jobs will be out there in five years much less ten.


56 posted on 06/22/2018 11:41:42 AM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: arrogantsob

LOL...……….well, would you feel better if I added the word “alleged”?


57 posted on 06/22/2018 5:45:16 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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