Gene Healy

Vice President at Cato Institute

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Have Presidents Grown Too Powerful to Be Removed from Office?

1 week ago | cato.org | Gene Healy

The cover-up of President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is a scandal “maybe worse than Watergate,” CNN’s Jake Tapper opined recently. In this case, the key question is: “What didn’t the president know and when didn’t he know it?” Last week the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ramped up its efforts to answer these questions.
Jake Tapper's 'Original Sin' shows that presidents have grown too powerful

2 weeks ago | reason.com | Gene Healy

Executive Power Joe Biden showed that the 25th Amendment doesn't work. Donald Trump showed that impeachment is broken too.
Jake Tapper's 'Original Sin' shows that presidents have grown too powerful

2 weeks ago | buff.ly | Gene Healy

Executive Power Joe Biden showed that the 25th Amendment doesn't work. Donald Trump showed that impeachment is broken too.
Libertarians and DOGE Anxiety Disorder

Mar 27, 2025 | cato.org | Gene Healy

Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. Man, libertarians are a difficult bunch. Give them a government agency tasked with “delet[ing] entire agencies,” and they’ll start yowling about the agency-deleting agency.
DOGE Can't Slash Government Without Congress

Feb 20, 2025 | cato.org | Gene Healy

So far, DOGE has stuck to the go-it-alone strategy Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy outlined in The Wall Street Journal after the election: “driving change through executive action based on existing legislation rather than by passing new laws.” But that’s not how any of this works. Neither the president nor his proxies can summarily zero out agencies and departments for which Congress has provided statutory authority and funding.
DOGE can’t slash government without Congress

Feb 18, 2025 | reason.com | Gene Healy

DOGE The federal leviathan can’t be dismantled by executive action alone. To truly cut spending and rein in the bureaucracy, the administration needs buy-in from the branch that built it.
Stroke of the Pen, Law of the Land: Kinda Nuts

Feb 6, 2025 | cato.org | Gene Healy

Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. Two weeks into the first Donald Trump presidency, Washington was freaking out about presidential style: “alternative facts” about Inaugural crowd size; scandalizing the CIA(!); using the National Prayer Breakfast to roast Arnold Schwarzenegger for lousy ratings as host of Celebrity Apprentice. Eight years later, the Beltway meltdown is largely about policy substance.
RIP Jimmy Carter, the 'Passionless' President

Jan 7, 2025 | cato.org | Gene Healy

Stumbling Toward Sound MoneyIn health care and elsewhere, the key motivation behind Carter’s relative parsimony was the need to fight the greatest economic threat of the late 1970s: roiling inflation. Massive spending on the Vietnam War and the Great Society “were accommodated by easy monetary policy and rising inflation,” Harvard’s Jeffrey Frankel explains.
The libertarian case for the late Jimmy Carter

Dec 29, 2024 | reason.com | Gene Healy

Jimmy Carter The libertarian case for the late Jimmy Carter.
Fear and Loathing at the Ballot Box

Nov 5, 2024 | cato.org | Gene Healy

Like most libertarians—and most sane Americans—David Friedman looks upon the Trump v. Harris contest with dread:My opinion of the election is “a plague on both your houses.” Kamala Harris is an extreme representative of an ideology I have opposed for most of my life. Donald Trump has three major positions on two of which, immigration and trade, he manages to be even worse than his opponent.

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