Sorry to interject but it is unlikely that purse strings are of any consequence and more unlikely that any power removed from the bureaucracies. The purse strings are of no consequence because all the bureaucracies and more were fully funded even though nobody read it and nobody apparantly contributed to it.
Yet ANOTHER problem with the Administrative State: "The scope of federal regulations is so vast that no one even knows how many exist. Estimates of criminally enforceable regulations range from 10,000 to more than 300,000.44 That’s as much as sixty-seven times the number of statutory federal crimes.45 Add to this number civilly enforceable regulations and the total number of federal regulations exceeds one million."
44. Gary Fields & John R. Emshwiller, Many Failed Efforts to Count Nation’s Federal Criminal Laws, WALL STREET J. (July 23, 2011), https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1000142405270230431980457638960107972892 0; see also United States v. Baldwin, 745 F.3d 1027, 1031 (10th Cir. 2014) (“[T]he Code of Federal Regulations today finds itself crowded with so many ‘crimes’ that scholars actually debate their number.”).
45. John S. Baker, Revisiting the Explosive Growth of Federal Crimes, HERITAGE FOUND. (June 16, 2008), https://www.heritage.org/report/revisiting-the- explosive-growth-federal-crimes (noting 4450 statutory crimes).
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