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At the start of Infrastructure Week, Common Good Chair Philip K. Howard called today for the United States to end its infrastructure paralysis by adopting a new framework to modernize U.S. infrastructure. This framework would replace balkanized approvals by multiple agencies and multiple levels of government with one decision-making hierarchy.
So far the Trump administration’s DOGE initiative has focused on cutting programs and terminating civil servants, not reforms to improve public performance. But there's broad public and expert opinion that government operating systems are overdue for overhaul.
This forum focused on the operational failures of the current state, and included proposals to empower common sense solutions, make government more manageable, and clarify the role of oversight by courts.
Common Good Chair Philip K. Howard’s new book, Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions, will be published by Rodin Books on January 24. In the book, he argues that public employee unions have undermined democratic governance and should be unconstitutional. Constitutional government can’t work when elected leaders lose control over public operating machinery.