Subject: Re: Oklahoma and Massachusetts
which might warrant a structural change in how the agencies were set up if they were genuinely trying to exercise governmental power for themselves. - albaby

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Here is one that gets more towards usurping Presidential authority. Recall the uproar from the State Department about Trump's interference with "their" carefully curated diplomatic relationship with the Germans when Trump went over there to lecture the Germans about meeting NATO commitments and not to become dependent on Russian gas.

AFAIK, the President sets foreign policy and the State Department implements that policy. It is not like they can have their own foreign policy separate from the president, can they?