Title: How Many Federal Agencies Exist? We Can't Drain The Swamp Until We Know
Headings: How Many Federal Agencies Exist? We Can't Drain The Swamp Until We Know
Aug 14, 2019,07:55am EDT
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How Many Federal Agencies Exist? We Can't Drain The Swamp Until We Know
How Many Federal Agencies Exist?

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For example, there's a twice-yearly publication called the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. The Agenda compiles agency regulatory plans and actions in the federal pipeline, and it listed 61 agencies in the Fall 2016 edition. That count can vary slightly from report to report. But as we'll see, its tally is on the low side. Incidentally, the once-routine Unified Agenda’s April-and-October schedule became a thing of the past, as it has been published late or failed to appear at all (as in Spring 2012 under then-president Obama). The Spring 2017 Trump edition of the Agenda has yet to appear, and now Independence Day has passed. The Trump delay may or may not be attributable to the reorganization effort, and to the prominent executive order requiring the elimination of at least two rules for every new agency rule created. Both would clearly affect agency priorities and reporting, regardless of their resistance. Notably with respect to the number of agencies, the Administrative Conference of the United States -- which lists 115 agencies in the appendix of its most recent Sourcebook of United States Executive Agencies -- had the following to say: