This is some Orwelian disastership, right here: "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies"
Leapin' Lizards, Daddy Warbucks!
Executive Order 18 Feb, 2025
Section 1. Policy and Purpose. The Constitution vests all executive power in the President and charges him with faithfully executing the laws. Since it would be impossible for the President to single-handedly perform all the executive business of the Federal Government, the Constitution also provides for subordinate officers to assist the President in his executive duties. In the exercise of their often-considerable authority, these executive branch officials remain subject to the President’s ongoing supervision and control. The President in turn is regularly elected by and accountable to the American people. This is one of the structural safeguards, along with the separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches, regular elections for the Congress, and an independent judiciary whose judges are appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, by which the Framers created a Government accountable to the American people.
However, previous administrations have allowed so-called “independent regulatory agencies” to operate with minimal Presidential supervision. These regulatory agencies currently exercise substantial executive authority without sufficient accountability to the President, and through him, to the American people. Moreover, these regulatory agencies have been permitted to promulgate significant regulations without review by the President.
These practices undermine such regulatory agencies’ accountability to the American people and prevent a unified and coherent execution of Federal law. For the Federal Government to be truly accountable to the American people, officials who wield vast executive power must be supervised and controlled by the people’s elected President.
Imagine going to a football game as a fan of the away team. You show up, and before the coin toss, there's an announcement that since the home team owner pays the salaries of the referees, all referees will call plays in whatever manner the owner decides, because the owner wants to make sure fans of the home team are happy with the results, and totally not because the owner loves money.
Maybe having truly independent review matters because we care more about the truth than we do about ingratiating power-hungry cheaters.
Maybe some folks in here need to judge Trump by his actions and realize what's at stake here.