[usconservative]

The idea that a Federal agency would not be accountable to the people through their funding source is abhorrent to the principle of self-government.

I think we need to start naming all the federal agencies that fit this very statement and demanding their elimination.

Let me start with the Department of Education, the IRS and EPA.

[cotton1706]

“I think we need to start naming all the federal agencies that fit this very statement and demanding their elimination.

Let me start with the Department of Education, the IRS and EPA.>

Well, they’re still funded through appropriations by the Congress, that is, by law, as the Constitution stipulates.

The court said words to the effect that the Congress cannot set up an agency with a funding source that is outside the appropriation process.