The Treasury Department is part of the Executive Branch, answerable to the POTUS. Put Treasury in charge if selling the assets and buying back then burning the outstanding Treasury Bills.
Obama has spent seven years showing us just how much can be done by controlling the bureaucrats in all the various departments and agencies — actually USING Executive Power. It takes forever for objections to arise and go through the court process, and then the agencies just ignore the courts for several rounds anyway.
We should encourage Trump to do the same until we are back on track and then cheerfully sign new curbs that prevent future Presidents from going around Congress. It takes a tyrant to undo the excesses of a tyrant.
I understand what you’re saying. We’ve started down the road to having a king. Now we want to go farther only with the guy WE want to be king...? I’m not there. I’d rather have a return to the constitution and eliminate most of the agencies.