Obviously very tough, but I voted for:
-Department of Agriculture (widespread starvation isn't an issue right now... let's keep it that way, and hopefully regulate companies like Monsanto, and keep administering SNAP... without enough food, there is no civilization, and we are going to have some potential threats to our food production & supply only increase the rest of this century)
-EPA (I like clean air and clean water, and it doesn't fit neatly anywhere else)
-CIA/Intelligence (capable and guilty of abuse, but we need some kind of intelligence, while some parts of homeland security could go under justice or to the states - though the case could be made to put this under Defense or State)
-Postal Service (everyone in the country should have a right to direct communication service & mailing service that isn't driven by profit)
-Amtrak (everyone in the country should have a right to a direct transportation service that's not driven by profit, even if it can't be everywhere, while Department of Transportation seems too bureaucratic and not direct enough)
-FDIC (very important in times of financial crash, could also just be moved to Treasury)
-NASA (we've seen recently that privatization and leaving space to corporations might not be in our long-tern national interest, plus there's science that might not turn a profit at first)
-NLRB (seems much more important than the Department of Labor itself, and could also include OSHA responsibilities)
-Social Security Administration (for the existence of Social Security... and we could just move Medicare/Medicaid back under this... or maybe just put this under Treasury?)
-National Archives & Records Administration (we should keep history and just generally track what we do, this is government 101, and maybe the museums like the Smithsonian can be put under this, along with BLS and probably the patent/trademark office & census make sense here.)
(I wanted to put GSA and OPM, as also being government 101, but I justified that could always be done at the department/agency level.
Maybe DoJ could take over Legal Services Administration duties, Consumer Product Safety legal responsibilities/enforcement, immigration & border law enforcement, well as EEOC and FEC & veteran nondiscrimination & special education nondiscrimination responsibilities.
FDA can go under Agriculture.
OSHA can combine with NLRB.
Perhaps Treasury could just directly take over SEC, FTC, servicing student loans & low-income schools, and Federal Reserve duties... and I know the importance of an independent Federal Reserve, but again, couldn't put that above the others.
Housing and Transportation & Energy infrastructure projects in general can just be funding that's administered by the states, as well as disaster responses done by FEMA & CDC, maybe with Treasury doing the coordination with FEMA & CDC & "Special Projects" offices within it?
Nuclear power plant regulation makes most sense under Defense, in this scenario... NOAA and the Geological Survey could go under Defense too.
For Interior's two-fold mission, national parks and tribal reservations - parks & fisheries/wildlife protections could go under environmental protection and tribal reservations could go under DoJ?
I really wanted to save PBS/NPR, and the National Science Foundation, but I just couldn't put them above the others mentioned.
I'm not sure if FCC is worth being up there among the others either, if we have to prioritize, especially since it can sometimes over-regulate.)
Anyhow, that's the best I could do. But honestly, I'd do a total reorganization.
Not sure what you mean, because President Musk hasn't repealed any agencies at all. The word "repeal" refers to getting rid of legislation, via Congress passing another bill revoking a previous one. And President Musk has done none of that. All he has done is just do a bunch of stuff without any regard to (or for) the law.
I'm not commenting directly on Musk.
Just figured this would be a timely thread due to DOGE, but it's not about DOGE.
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