FDR had an unprecedented 4 consecutive POTUS terms to put his ideological footprint on American Government and we are still debating that ideology today. Next month's CFPB case is but one example. Fannie Mae another.
If you watched the 60 minute H.W. Brands speech I linked for you, the US went through significant change on the eve of the Great Depression and WWI & WW11 - BEFORE Americans expected little help or assistance from the federal government AFTER Americans expected more and more help from the federal government and the proliferation of government agencies emerged, including Fannie Mae.
Where the right balance between a Progressive and Conservative federal government lands will ultimately be up to the US Citizens and the limitations of the US Constitution.
We'll see what happens.
"Joseph Story, explained that if not for the
Appropriations Clause, “the executive would possess
an unbounded power over the public purse of the
nation; and might apply all its monied resources at his
pleasure.” 3 Joseph Story, Commentaries on the
Constitution of the United States § 1342 (1833). The
Clause ensures “regularity, punctuality, and fidelity,
in the disbursements of the public money,” defined as
“all the taxes raised from the people, as well as the
revenues arising [from] other sources.” Id.
In his Commentaries, St. George Tucker criticized
those systems without a check like the Appropriations
Clause, where an executive “levies whatever sums he
thinks proper; disposes of them as he thinks proper;
and would deem it sedition against him and his
government, if any account were required of him, in
what manner he had disposed of any part of them.” St.
George Tucker, 1 Blackstone’s Commentaries, App. at
362 (1803). As Tucker explained, accountability via
the Appropriations Clause is “the difference between
governments, where there is responsibility, and where
there is none.” Id.
