To tie this back to the issue at hand, yeah legislating that the federal bureaucracy shall look like this, or a federal worker in the Department of X shall answer to so-and-so is a cleaner and longer lasting solution; but Trump is going to do this shit and force everyone to live in the world in which some agencies no longer exist, or federal workers can be fired and there are fewer of them, and that's going to reshape our ideas of what things can and should look like. Plus as a practical point, a lot of the shit for which he's setting a precedent is simple the opposite of anything his opponents want to do, I'm not super concerned about what Democrats might do if they set out to use the tool of decreasing the size of government and disrespecting federal employees in a partisan way; and they obviously already had all the tools they needed to create the agencies and bloat the government, because...that's the reality in which we've been living.