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by vkou 1496 days ago
> The people actually drafting the million pages of administrative regulations are overwhelmingly career bureaucrats, who are effectively unfireable.

They report to the appointed heads of these agencies, who both sign off on their work, and have the power to either fire them, or reassign them, when they refuse to draft the regulations they are told to draft.

The reason they don't tend to get fired, is because they tend to do what they are told.