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Sometimes agencies themselves have support from various interest groups, which can clash with the views of the President. Congress also has influence over the government's bureaucracy.
Special interest groups check the power of bureaucracy with their constant monitoring and resultant publicity of actions. Special interest groups can create a false sense of urgency or need on a topic.
Lobbyists are representatives of interests groups right? Interest groups are a way for constituents to influence Congress. Lobbies are an irreplacable source of information for members of congress.
In the USA it is Congress. They have to pass legislation to authorize the government to borrow more money (raise the debt ceiling). Indirectly the Federal Reserve and the market also put a cap on it since the ability to borrow depends on the interest rate that must be paid on any bonds issued by the government. Higher interest rates set by the Fed cause the interest rates that must be paid on government bonds to have to be higher to actually sell. The market also determines what interest rate will be required to sell all the bonds - the less demand there is for the bonds, the higher the interest rate has to be in order to make them attractive enough to sell and the better the yields on other potential investments, the higher the interest rates have to be in order to be sufficiently competitive. The higher the interest rates, the more difficult it is to get approval to borrow.
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The iron triangle refers to the complex relationship between interest groups, Congress, and the federal bureaucracy.
Interest groups the federal bureaucracy and Congress form the iron triangle.
Interest groups the federal bureaucracy and Congress form the iron triangle.
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Sometimes agencies themselves have support from various interest groups, which can clash with the views of the President. Congress also has influence over the government's bureaucracy.
Those in the iron triangle are likely to have strong allies from a particular state in congress. It is made of congressional committees, bureaucracy and interest groups.
Special interest groups check the power of bureaucracy with their constant monitoring and resultant publicity of actions. Special interest groups can create a false sense of urgency or need on a topic.
An interest group can check the power of a bureaucracy from the beureaucracy's main support desk. Whoever is employed at the front is able to look up a system of alphanumeric values that can tell the bureaucracy's growth over time.
Congress has created independent agencies to serve the public interest and keep the government and the economy working smoothly.