Do plan ideas on firing officials match the 2025 firings of commission members?
Research question: Which proposals in the Mandate's chapters on executive power and independent agencies appear in its text, and how do they compare with the 2025 firings of members of multi-member commissions?
The records show Project 2025 proposes placing independent agencies under direct presidential control, arguing their removal protections are constitutionally problematic 4. It suggests revisiting Humphrey's Executor to strip protections from multi-member agency commissioners such as the FTC's 5, and argues FTC commissioners should be removable at will under the Vesting Clause 6. The facts contain no description of the 2025 firings of commission members, so no direct comparison with those firings can be drawn; the closest 2025 item is the February 19, 2025 executive order requiring affected independent agencies to submit new regulations to the White House 9. The newest fact is dated August 14, 2026, about two months before October 2026 13.
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"In Federalist No. 47, James Madison warned that “[t]he accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”2 Regrettably, that wise and cautionary note describes to a significant degree the modern executive branch, which—whe" Project 2025 PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION PROJECT
"In organizing (by means of Presidential Directive31) an NSC staff that is more responsive and aligned with the President’s goals and empowered to implement them, the NSA should immediately evaluate and eliminate directorates that are not aligned with the President’s agenda and replace them with new directorates as appropriate that can drive implementation of the President’s signature national secu" Project 2025 PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION PROJECT
"They must rein in agencies such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which the Biden Administration weapon-ized to attempt to force COVID-19 vaccine mandates on 84 million Americans through their workplaces." Project 2025 PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION PROJECT
"Project 2025 weakens federal independent agencies by placing them under the direct control of the president. “In addition to the executive departments and agencies discussed previously, a number of independent commissions exist that are loosely affiliated with the executive branch. In general, the President can appoint people to these commissions but cannot remove them, which makes them constituti"1 Subject-by-Subject Breakdown of Trump’s Project 2025
"Project 2025 uses FTC as an example to make the case for revisiting Humphrey’s Executor, the Supreme Court case that upheld removal protections for commissioners of multi-member agencies, saying: “until there is a return to a constitutional structure that the Founding Fathers would have recognized and a massive shrinking of the administrative state, conservatives cannot unilaterally disarm and fai"1 Subject-by-Subject Breakdown of Trump’s Project 2025
"“The FTC’s commissioners are not removable at will by the President, which many quite reasonably believe violates the Vesting Clause of the Constitution; it is"1 Subject-by-Subject Breakdown of Trump’s Project 2025
"Project 2025 details how an extremist White House would make it easier to terminate employees by shortening the disciplinary process and limiting appeals. Project 2025 recommends reinstating Trump’s order, directing agencies to shorten the disciplinary process for underperforming employees and attempting to limit the kinds of personnel actions that could be appealed, among other requirements and r"1 Subject-by-Subject Breakdown of Trump’s Project 2025
"Project 2025 states: “What is needed at the beginning is a freeze on all top career-position hiring to prevent ‘burrowing-in’ by outgoing political appointees.”"1 Subject-by-Subject Breakdown of Trump’s Project 2025
"The order calls for the affected agencies to submit any new regulations to the White House, set up White House Liaison offices, and "regularly consult with and coordinate policies and priorities" with the White House."Trump claims expanded power over independent agencies
"In claiming this new power over agencies, the order also gives the president and attorney general the sole abilities to interpret laws for the executive branch."Trump claims expanded power over independent agencies
"Project 2025 references a 1935 Supreme Court decision, Humphrey's Executor v. US , in which the court decided that a president cannot fire the head of an independent agency. Project 2025's chapter on the Department of Justice argues that that decision violates the separation of powers."Trump claims expanded power over independent agencies
"As acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he recently mandated that all staff "stop performing any work tasks.""Trump claims expanded power over independent agencies
"E.O. 14215, ``Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies,''"Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2026-08-14)
"The NRC is taking this action in response to Executive Order (E.O.) 14192, ``Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation'' (90 FR 9065; January 31, 2025) and E.O. 14215, ``Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies'' (90 FR 10447; February 18, 2025)."Regulatory Analysis Guidelines; Regulatory Analysis Technical Evaluation Handbook; Withdrawal and Resolution of Public Comments (Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2026-07-21)
"E.O. 14219, ``Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President's `Department of Government Efficiency' Deregulatory Initiative,''"Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2026-08-14)
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