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I've been all over the government as a fed, and now as a contractor, over the past 20+ years.
Both are routinely awful at running things. Shutdowns aside, neither side has proven able to get a budget out on time for the past 10+ years, regardless of who is in control of the House, so the whole ongoing CR fiasco that's been the status quo over the past few administrations is one of the truly nonpartisan things in DC.
At the legislative level, both parties are utterly divorced from reality and produce legislation that is often utterly incoherent and relies on the administrative apparatus to not only interpret the utter nonsense produced on the Hill, but also figure out how to implement said nonsense.
At the administrative level, Congress' inability to produce well-written legislation results in many agencies having to massively stretch to interpret and implement those laws, which in turn lends itself to a lot of administrative overreach that tends to get smacked down by the courts when challenged.
At the political appointees level, they routinely range from jaw droppingly awful to fantastic on a thoroughly bipartisan basis, with corresponding results on the agencies and orgs they run.
On top of all that, the negative "unintended consequences" that come from the actually 100% foreseeable consequences of implementing the garbage laws that Congress passes in the pursuit of pleasing their special interests and base poison the well in terms of public support, sentiment, and trust for the government.
From a governance standpoint, I give both parties a solid F-.
The one that didn’t attempt an armed coup
It’s mostly been the same, with onebig exception:
The shutdowns. Republicans keep holding the federal government’s budget hostage. All the shutdowns over the last decade have been because of the Republican Party. That’s not like, partisan rhetoric, it’s literally what happened.
Moreover, even when it doesn’t shut down, it only gets extended for a handful of months. It’s very rare that a full, stable, long term budget is put in place.
This has huge logistical ramifications. It means certain agencies can’t PLAN for anything. They can’t hire, they can’t implement new policies beyond what they’re doing, etc. for example, I know library of congress has wanted to upgrade their systems for years, but a project that should have been completed years ago keeps getting stalled because they never have the full budget to implement it.
So yeah. Republicans have been awful for the federal government, in my experience.
It’s all the same.
As a contractor (not in the defense sector), I’ve seen notable differences in the managerial capabilities in the appointee ranks from one President to another, but I can’t say that one party or the other has a lock on appointee quality.
The administrative state—the actual govt employees and career leaders—are overwhelmingly democrats, so you don’t really feel any meaningful difference from one administration to the next. Republicans generally aren’t very strategic about this stuff the way democrats have been for about 50 years. Trump didn’t have the focus, awareness, or opportunity to do anything about this and I don’t get the impression GWB even cared. Suppose Desantis wins in 2028 he would be the first GOP president since Reagan to have the wherewithal and managerial capacity to actually do anything that would register at the contractor level.
Tbh I don’t think it has to do with any kind of strategy from the Democratic Party.
Government employees just happen to, almost by definition, be people who 1. Are low-to-mid middle class 2. Believe in the power, or at least the potential power, of the government providing services.
I feel like they’re generally more open to unions as well.