Separation of powers and agencies used to mean something. It’s now an alphabet soup with expensive duplication.
If they did banish the agency, would we save money, or would they just rearrange the employees across the government payroll and have the same problems? I think thats what would happen. Government employees realigning government employees.
A government job is the safest spot in the universe.
“Government employees realigning government employees.”
That would not happen if the Congress, in writing the legislation, were to completely specify what is supposed to happen. We get to the place we are with the “alphabet soup” agencies, because the Congress writes a “one liner,” then hucks the turd over the fence to the Executive Branch for “implementation,” along with an overly generous fist full of dollars. Is it any wonder we are where we are today.
Both.
Some long term employees would likely be offered an early retirement. Most remaining people would have job tenure and would be transferred to other agencies either at their current rank or perhaps a lower rank but with provision to keep the same pay. The remaining few would be let go with some cash separation arrangement. This would bulk up some other agencies or even double slot people for a while, so the initially savings would be minimal. Some transferred functions would simply transfer manning but just merge under an existing boss in another agency and changing the flow chart. Many of the bad apples would still be there, unfortunately.
In the long run there would be substantial savings as the bureaucracy would be smaller. Consolidated tasking would decrease overall spending by eliminating duplication which naturally is legion in these related agencies.
In other words, there is simply no reason not to do it except it upsets a lot of rice bowls and decreases the clout of the anti-gun lobbies.