“Whole Of Government” – It Doesn’t Work & It’s Unconstitutional!

Under the Biden administration, a “whole of government” approach was taken to run the government in several areas such as climate change, energy, environment, and many others.  A major focus was the U.S. Global Health Security Strategy (GHSS) with an emphasis on preventing and responding to infectious disease.  Federal agencies collectively perceived themselves as serving as the “nation’s largest employer and largest buyer”, and early on, the administration set out to “advance racial equity” using the whole of government approach.

Some described this whole of government approach as trying “to make every policy comply with goals on climate change and social justice”.  In reality, it was a massive overhaul of all federal agencies to insert not only social justice but also other ideologies into government policies.

Just pick an issue and every federal agency had to be on board with it.  As an example, back in 2023, the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) wanted to involve 13 federal agencies in preventing fires (pg 2).

However, this doesn’t provide an explanation of the whole of government approach.  Now that Biden is gone, concern about it should diminish, but that would be misleading.  Understanding this approach is important even today.

Whole of government actually originates from the United Nations (UN), surprise, surprise.  Back in 2014, the UN defined it as “agencies working across portfolio boundaries to jointly achieve integrated responses to the issues of policy development, program management and service delivery”, and “integrated approaches to sustainable development”.  Clearly, it is intended to “transform the way the government works for the people.”  This approach has already infested many countries.

The goal, of course, is to integrate the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).  Some of the framework can already be seen here in the U.S. (pg 8) through the language itself.  Data collection and management, especially with artificial intelligence and data centers, digitalization of all information, and the fascist public-private-partnerships are just a few steps already in progress within the government.

Part of this integration is to “transform behavior” (pg 11) and utilize “Strategies and action plan to change mindsets through re-phrasing limiting beliefs into beliefs aligned with the 2030 Agenda”.  Today, language has been altered to include such terms as sustainability, sexual orientation, pronoun use, and equity. How many beliefs have been changed because of this “re-phrasing”?

It doesn’t appear that this new design of our government has disappeared with the Trump administration.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has called for a whole of government approach to China and illegal immigration which, Vice President Vance supported.

The Associated Press even noted that President Trump has implemented a whole of government approach regarding immigration enforcement, with multiple federal agencies being involved such as the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor, and now, the supposedly defunct Department of Education.

According to one official, “The State Department is working with the departments of Justice and Homeland Security in what one senior State official called a “whole of government and whole of authority approach.”  This perspective was also noted in another report in relation to Harvard University.

Imagine what the weight of the full federal government bearing down on one citizen might be like if targeted.

The federal government, even with this new administration, is still so lost.  In an effort to rid the whole of government approach in the U.S. Department of State, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced changes that include securing the border, replacing DEI with meritocracy, eliminating divisive diplomacy, stopping censorship, ending climate policies, and reviewing all foreign aid funding.  How about just following the Constitution?

As can be seen, this whole of government approach continues to be in play, even though there is some thought Trump is now supposedly reversing it.  That is questionable as he supported it in his first term and seems to continue using it.  Maybe the whole thing wasn’t even started by Biden after all.  It may no longer be about social justice or climate change, but is now focused on immigration and eliminating those social justice and climate policies.

The issue isn’t what issue is being focused upon.  The issue is the way in which the government is operating, way outside of constitutional limits.

For almost one hundred years, and perhaps longer, Presidents have rejected the Constitution by restructuring the government with such policies as The New Deal, The Great Society, and Reinventing Government, which was intended to reduce the government size and make it more efficient.  That last one must not have been successful as the same attempts to reduce the government size are being made today.  None of these empty talk policies followed the Constitution.

But the general principle remains the same, integrating multiple federal agencies to focus on one issue.  The centralization of power between federal agencies is a concerning trajectory.  For now, there is support for the issues such as addressing illegal immigration, eliminating climate change directives, and removing social justice ideologies in government policies.

However, it may not always be those issues and could easily revert to a whole of government approach requiring a digital ID or forced mandates such as were seen during Covid-19.  The weight of the federal government is already felt by most citizens.

The whole of government approach continues, consolidating power and control throughout federal agencies.  With the recent introduction of interoperability between agencies, the ability to consolidate that control has been taken to new heights and more consolidated data on every American.  Yes, the whole of government approach needs to be understood and monitored by citizens.

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