McCormick Shares Plan to Shake Up Washington at Philly Event with Senator Ernst
You have to be fearless about going to Washington and making a difference’
PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Dave McCormick, a combat veteran and Pennsylvania job creator who served in the highest levels of government, today spoke at a roundtable in Philadelphia with Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa on the need to shake up Washington and ensure our government works for the people.
“When we say shake up Washington, we mean ensure that Washington is serving the people. I think we all are feeling like [Washington] isn’t serving the people. To serve the people well, you have to care. You have to listen. And then you have to be fearless about going to Washington and making a difference,” said McCormick.
McCormick and Ernst were joined by Philadelphia community leader Drew Murray, former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District Bill McSwain, former Chief of Staff to the 77th Secretary of the Navy Jeremy Ibrahim, South Philadelphia community leader Josh Novotney, and small business owners from the Philadelphia area.
McCormick’s three-part plan to shake up Washington and make government work for the American people includes:
1. Take On the Culture of Washington
- Make it easier to fire bureaucrats in administrative agencies who are not performing.
- Relocate the Department of Energy to Pittsburgh and move federal agencies with missions mostly outside of D.C. to other parts of the country.
- Sell any federal building in D.C. that does not have a full-time workforce.
- Stop focusing resources and attention on misguided ideological agendas like diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Actually enforce laws put in place to protect Americans, like removing foreign nationals who incite violence or endorse terrorist activity.
- Exclude noncitizens from the Census count and pass a constitutional amendment so only Americans can vote in American elections.
2. Rein in Federal Overreach
- Restore President Trump’s executive order that required cutting two regulations for every new one added.
- Create an expedited process to challenge regulations based on their cost-benefit analysis.
- Impose stronger checks from Congress on agencies to ensure significant regulations receive proper scrutiny from elected leaders.
- End the deference courts give agency interpretations of laws passed by Congress.
3. Improve Congress
- Impose term limits on Congress.
- Prevent members from using their position to enrich themselves by prohibiting them and their immediate family members from trading of individual stocks and derivatives, lobbying, or steering funding to nonprofits that employ family members.
- Get our fiscal house back in order and pass a balanced budget amendment.
Click here to read more about McCormick’s plan in a recent Real Clear Politics op-ed and here to read parts one and two of the Keystone Agenda.