u/OldFaithlessness1335

I was thinking about creative ways to reduce the concentration of power in the executive branch, and it got me thinking about Article I and the original intent behind the structure of the federal government.

Did you know the entire federal legislative branch, including congressional operations, staff, pensions, and healthcare for former members, costs roughly $7 billion annually? That’s about 0.1% of total federal spending. The judiciary operates on roughly $9–10 billion per year. Meanwhile, the executive branch oversees and administers nearly $7 trillion annually.

Think about that for a second.

It’s widely accepted that the legislative branch was originally intended to be the strongest of the three branches, yet today Congress is arguably the weakest institutionally. The executive branch possesses the overwhelming share of administrative capacity, technical expertise, and operational control.

What would people think about rehoming some federal agencies or oversight functions under the legislative branch instead? Expanding congressional staff, analytical agencies, and institutional capacity (including the sheer number of legislatures) could fundamentally shift the balance of power away from the presidency and back toward Congress. It would be a major structural change, but maybe one worth discussing if people are serious about checks and balances.

From a conservative view it would increase direct oversight of the federal agencies themselves. It would also encourage federal agencies to not be as subject ot political pressures (as there conclusions would need to be bi partisan by there very nature).

Also happy mothers day.

Would you increase the resources to Congress itself?

I was thinking about creative ways to reduce the concentration of power in the executive branch, and it got me thinking about Article I and the original intent behind the structure of the federal government.

Did you know the entire federal legislative branch, including congressional operations, staff, pensions, and healthcare for former members, costs roughly $7 billion annually? That’s about 0.1% of total federal spending. The judiciary operates on roughly $9–10 billion per year. Meanwhile, the executive branch oversees and administers nearly $7 trillion annually.

Think about that for a second.

It’s widely accepted that the legislative branch was originally intended to be the strongest of the three branches, yet today Congress is arguably the weakest institutionally. The executive branch possesses the overwhelming share of administrative capacity, technical expertise, and operational control.

What would people think about rehoming some federal agencies or oversight functions under the legislative branch instead? Expanding congressional staff, analytical agencies, and institutional capacity could fundamentally shift the balance of power away from the presidency and back toward Congress. It would be a major structural change, but maybe one worth discussing if people are serious about checks and balances.

Edit: cleaned up for clarity

Also happy mothers day.

Village-Elections-Results-certified-4.28.26.pdf

Also how can get those participation number up? Theres roughly 15k people who live here so say conservatively 60% (I saw numbers that said 12k of the 15k 80% were voting age) are voting age maybe 10k people of voting age population. That means that we had a voting rate of about 5% (using the 60% number).

For me

1. A service job (probably food based at a local establishment). Excellent way to learn a work ethic when your young.
2. a poll worker/election administrator. Elections are foundational to the USA. More people should know how they are run from the inside. Election infrastructure is also a critical infrastructure so this fills a national security need.

I also asked this question on r/askaconservative if anyone is curious a few days ago: If you could recommend 2 jobs everyone do, what would they be? Why? : r/AskConservatives

Im curious to see if the liberal views change at all. Most of the folks over at ask a conservative put manual labor and service related jobs especially at a younger ago.