If massive budget deficits and endless bureaucratic snafus weren’t enough to convince you government is too big, consider this: The ballooning size of federal government is so out of control that the Feds themselves don’t even know how many government agencies exist.
According to an analysis of official remarks in the twice annual “Unified Agenda of Federal Deregulatory and Regulatory Actions” by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the federal government is made up of somewhere between 60 and 430 separate agencies.
According to CEI, the “Unified Agenda,” a compilation of forthcoming federal regulatory proposals, lists 60 federal agencies. But that number doesn’t jive with the Administrative Conference of the United States’ “Sourcebook of United States Executive Agencies,” which lists 115 agencies in its appendix.
That publication, however, goes on to note that there is no official count of federal agencies, saying:
[T]here is no authoritative list of government agencies. For example, FOIA.gov [maintained by the Department of Justice] lists 78 independent executive agencies and 174 components of the executive departments as units that comply with the Freedom of Information Act requirements imposed on every federal agency. This appears to be on the conservative end of the range of possible agency definitions. The United States Government Manual lists 96 independent executive units and 220 components of the executive departments. An even more inclusive listing comes from USA.gov, which lists 137 independent executive agencies and 268 units in the Cabinet.
Other federal sources compound the confusion.
During a 2015 Senate Judiciary Committee, Chairman Chuck Grassley noted: “The Federal Register indicates there are over 430 departments, agencies, and sub-agencies in the federal government.”
But, CEI pointed out, the online version of the Federal Register tallies only 257 agencies.
The right of center organization is calling for a congressional response to the lack of definitive count of federal agencies.
“If nobody knows how many agencies exist whose decrees we must abide, that means we don’t know how many people work for the government (let alone contractors making a living from taxpayers) nor know how many rules there are,” CEI said on its website.
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