The Powerful Consequences of 2020 Election: How It Could Shape Federal Agencies

In American politics, there is the illusion that voting for the president and Congress is choosing who is going to run the country. It is not quite that simple.

The vast majority of campaigning focuses on the individual candidates for prominent offices like president, vice president, and Senate and House seats, but a substantial amount of governance is done by a different group of people: presidential appointees to administrative agencies.