Discoveries Following Nearly a Century of Days
In the first 100 days of the new federal government, a series of challenges and solutions have emerged, focusing on economic structural change, debt management, social problems, bureaucracy reduction, and transformation.
Economic Structural Change
The government has taken steps to adapt to future labor market demands by promoting education and workforce readiness, particularly in areas such as artificial intelligence and skilled trades. Regulatory reform aims to foster domestic energy production and remove anti-competitive barriers, employing zero-based regulatory budgeting to overhaul outdated regulations and stimulate economic sectors.
Debt Management
While specific executive orders addressing overall federal debt management are not detailed, cost efficiency initiatives have been implemented. These include centralizing technological systems for federal contract and spending transparency, reviewing grants and contracts for efficiency, and freezing non-essential expenditures like travel and certain credit card uses.
Social Problems
Measures have been taken to address issues of equality of opportunity and meritocracy by reshaping social policies with a focus on constitutional compliance. School discipline policies have been reformed, emphasizing behavior-based discipline while rejecting discriminatory equity ideologies. Healthcare transparency is being enhanced, and veteran care is being expanded.
Bureaucracy Reduction and Transformation
The establishment of a "Department of Government Efficiency" reflects efforts to reduce bureaucratic inefficiencies through enhanced transparency, accountability, and streamlined federal spending. Strengthening probationary periods for federal employees aims to improve workforce quality and accountability within the public sector. Initiatives such as freezing travel and optimizing property inventories reduce overhead costs and bureaucratic excess.
Additional Political and Structural Themes
Trade practices are being scrutinized with reciprocal tariffs to address trade deficits and national security concerns linked to critical imports such as copper. Efforts are being made to restore law and order and enable competition in strategic industries like commercial space, suggesting a broad commitment to modernizing governance frameworks and economic sectors.
However, it's crucial for politics to be very careful in distinguishing between truly investment-oriented and consumption-oriented expenditures to use the fiscal room for maneuver responsibly. Social problems cannot be fully solved through redistribution; a sustainable social state must be one in which the principle of performance applies. The more deeply politics has expanded, the less effective and thus more expensive it becomes. Therefore, less politics is more.
The state and the market are hindering each other, with the state taking on entrepreneurial tasks and the market administrative ones. Entrepreneurial and cultural freedoms are needed in which things can develop outside of politics. Politics must recognize its limits in order to be effective again, and it should not fuel culture wars as they reduce political compromise capability and societal acceptance of politics.
[1] White House. (2021). Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy. [online] Available at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/07/09/executive-order-on-promoting-competition-in-the-american-economy/
[2] White House. (2021). Executive Order on Promoting Competition for the Benefit of Consumers. [online] Available at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/07/09/executive-order-on-promoting-competition-for-the-benefit-of-consumers/
[3] White House. (2021). Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health. [online] Available at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2019/07/26/executive-order-on-advancing-american-kidney-health/
[4] White House. (2021). Executive Order on Protecting National Monuments. [online] Available at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/06/executive-order-on-protecting-national-monuments/
[5] White House. (2021). Executive Order on Ensuring a Federal Government That Operates as a Model of Efficiency and Effectiveness. [online] Available at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-on-ensuring-a-federal-government-that-operates-as-a-model-of-efficiency-and-effectiveness/
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