By David Williams, Taxpayers Protection Alliance Foundation President
The United States government is built upon the separation of powers between its three branches. Congress, the policymaking leader, passes law; the president, via the executive branch, enforces law; and the courts resolve disputes.
In the last century or more, this structure has become badly confused as Congress has unconstitutionally vested legislative and judicial powers in the administrative state, best exemplified in the numerous, so-called independent regulatory agencies that oversee virtually every facet of American life. Particularly during the Biden administration, federal agencies have become increasingly unaccountable, overreaching, and lawless, and their actions waste taxpayer money and hurt consumers.
To combat such arbitrary rule and agency mission creep, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance Foundation has documented and publicized extensively the abuses committed by such agencies as the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
But no entity typifies America’s transition from constitutional governance to rule-by-bureaucrat more than the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. That’s why TPAF has launched CFPB Mission Creep — to shine a light on the financial watchdog’s abuses.
Read more in Washington Examiner.