Rick Hess:
Yes.
I mean, I think there’s reasonable concerns about, if you are entrusted with a public agency and you are going to either ask it to do something that’s never done, like under President Biden, the student loan forgiveness, or what we are seeing here, firing roughly half the work force, announcing you’re going to try to fundamentally limit its activities, it’s entirely fair to ask questions about how’s this going to work, explain the legal authority for the specific actions.
And, most importantly, in this case, if you are cutting the department in half in terms of staffing, but you’re continuing to run all the programs, how are you going to manage that transition in ways that ideally yield a more agile, more responsive, more accountable department?
It’s up to the administration to explain that to the American public.
