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Adam\xa0J.\xa0White\xa0joins\xa0Brian Anderson\xa0to discuss the\xa0\u201cadministrative state,\u201d\xa0often\xa0described as the\xa0fourth branch of the federal government. Under the Obama administration, bureaucratic agencies were\xa0aggressivelyutilized to bypass\xa0congressional hostility\xa0to the progressive agenda.

In 2014, President Obama declared his \u201cpen and phone\u201d strategy:\xa0if the Republican-controlled Congress was unwilling to act on his priorities, he would sign executive orders directing\xa0federal agencies to enforce new rules or ignore existing\xa0ones.\xa0Environmental regulations, immigration reform, and\xa0Internet neutrality\xa0were just a few areas where the Obama administration directed agencies to make substantial policy changes.

Adam White is an attorney, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution,\xa0and\xa0a contributing editor\xa0of\xa0City Journal.\xa0His\xa0story\xa0\u201cBreak the Bureaucracy\u201d appeared in the Winter 2017 Issue.