Hey y'all, and welcome to our second podcast episode on the executive branch! Our discussion today is about the bureaucracy (aka, the administration or administrative state). We're often not too familiar with this term or how it applies to our lives, but really the bureaucracy is the biggest portion of our government with over 4 million people working in this area to support the executive branch. That includes independent regulatory agencies (like the CIA or EPA) and government corporations (like the Postal Service or Amtrak). Bureaucracies are often slow-moving and hard to change, but at the end of the day it's the biggest part of government that puts into action all the tasks that Congress g ...