There are 441 agencies in the federal government. You could call this the unelected administrative state, and now "deep state". I believe you could eliminate all but a handful of these and either eliminate them altogether or hand the power back to the states.
These agencies are the real people running the government and they are not elected. The congress does nothing to reign them in. We need to eliminate this waste. Here is a list of all the agencies...
1. AbilityOne Commission
2. Access Board
3. Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
4. Administration for Community Living (ACL)
5. Administration for Native Americans (ANA)
6. Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS)
7. Administrative Office of the United States Courts
8. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP)
9. U.S. Africa Command **
10. African Development Foundation (USADF) **
11. U.S. Agency for Global Media **
12. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) **
13. U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) **
14. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
15. Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) **
16. Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
17. Department of Agriculture (USDA) **
18. National Agricultural Library (NAL)
19. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) **
20. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
21. Alhurra TV (The Middle East Broadcasting Network operates Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa. Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa provide news to the people of the Middle East about the region, the world, and the United States.) **
22. American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)
23. AmeriCorps (Formerly known as the Corporation for National and Community Service)
24. AmeriCorps Seniors
25. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) **
26. Antitrust Division
27. Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) **
28. Architect of the Capitol
29. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
30. U.S. Arctic Research Commission (USARC)
31. Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH)
32. Office of the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security **
33. Army Corps of Engineers
34. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
35. Bankruptcy Courts
36. Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
37. Bonneville Power Administration (BPA)
38. Botanic Garden
39. Bureau of Consular Affairs
40. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
41. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
42. Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) **
43. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) **
44. Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)
45. Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) **
46. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
47. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
48. Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
49. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
50. Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP)
51. Bureau of Reclamation (a provider of wholesale water and hydroelectric power in the U.S.)
52. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE)
53. U.S. Census Bureau
54. Bureau of the Fiscal Service
55. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
56. U.S. Capitol Police
57. Capitol Visitor Center
58. Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE)
59. Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) **
60. Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) **
61. Center for Parent Information and Resources (CPIR) **
62. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) **
63. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
64. U.S Central Command (CENTCOM) (responsible for defending and promoting U.S. interests in 20 nations in the Middle East, Central and South Asia, and the strategic waterways that surround them.)
65. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) **
66. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) (investigates industrial chemical accidents.)
67. Chief Acquisition Officers Council (CAOC)
68. Chief Financial Officers Council (CFO)
69. Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCO)
70. Chief Information Officers Council (CIO)
71. Office of Child Support Services (OCSS)
72. U.S. Courts of Appeal
73. Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee (CSAC)
74. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE))
75. Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice
76. Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
77. Civil Rights, Department of Health and Human Services for…
78. Department of Commerce (DOC)
79. U. S. Commission of Fine Arts
80. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR)
81. U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) (reviews the facts and circumstances of violations of religious freedom internationally and to make policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State and Congress.)
82. Commission on Presidential Scholars
83. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (monitors and encourages compliance with the Helsinki Final Act and other Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe commitments.) **
84. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) **
85. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) **
86. Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)
87. Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD)
88. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) (charters, regulates, and supervises all national banks. It also supervises the federal branches and agencies of foreign banks.) **
89. Congress: US House of Representatives
90. Congress: US Senate
91. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) (produces independent, nonpartisan, analysis of economic and budgetary issues to support the Congressional budget process.)
92. Congressional Research Service (CRS)
93. Office of Congressional Workplace Rights (OCWR)
94. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
95. Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
96. Copyright Office
97. Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) (gives the president advice on domestic and international economic policy.) **
98. Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE)
99. Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)
100. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
101. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Evidently different from the Court of Appeals)
102. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
103. U.S. Court of Federal Claims **
104. United States Court of International Trade
105. Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) (This is just for DC)
106. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) (prevents people from entering the country illegally or bringing anything harmful or illegal into the United States.) **
107. U.S. Cyber Command
108. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
109. Debt and Claims Management Center
110. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) **
111. Defense Commissary Agency
112. Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA)
113. Defense Contract Management Agency (DCAMA)
114. Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA)
115. Department of Defense (DOD) **
116. Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS)
117. Defense Finance and Accounting Service Debt and Claims Management Center
118. Defense Health Agency (DHA)
119. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
120. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
121. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)
122. Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB)
123. Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
124. Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA)
125. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) (probably works with DARPA)
126. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) (a combat support agency whose goal is to reduce the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction.)
127. Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC)
128. Delta Regional Authority (DRA) (a partnership to improve economic and community growth in eight states. Those states are Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee.)
129. Denali Commission
130. Department of Education (ED)
131. Department of Energy (DOE)
132. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science
133. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) **
134. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) **
135. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
136. Department of Justice (DOJ)
137. Department of Labor (DOL)
138. Department of State (DOS) **
139. Department of the Interior (DOI)
140. Department of the Treasury (manages federal finances by collecting taxes and paying bills and by managing currency, government accounts and public debt. The Department of the Treasury also enforces finance and tax laws.) **
141. Department of Transportation (DOT)
142. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
143. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) **
144. Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)
145. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) **
146. Economic Development Administration (EDA)
147. Economic Growth, Energy, and the environment
148. Economic Research Service (ERS)
149. Elder Justice Initiative (EJI)
150. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) (supports state and local election officials in their efforts to ensure accessible, accurate. and secure elections. EAC develops guidance to meet the Help America Vote Act requirements, adopts voluntary voting system guidelines, and serves as a national clearinghouse of information on election administration. EAC also accredits testing laboratories and certifies voting systems, as well as audits the use of Help America Vote Act funds.) **
151. Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE)
152. Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)
153. Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
154. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
155. Office of Environmental Management
156. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
157. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
158. European Command (USEUCOM)
159. Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)
160. Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) **
161. Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO)
162. Fannie Mae (purchases mortgages from lending institutions in an effort to increase affordable lending activity at those institutions. Fannie Mae is not a federal agency. It is a government-sponsored enterprise under the conservatorship of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).)
163. Farm Credit Administration (FCA)
164. Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation (FCSIC)
165. Farm Service Agency (FSA)
166. Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB)
167. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
168. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) **
169. Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM)
170. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
171. Federal Consulting Group (FCG)
172. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
173. Federal Election Commission (FEC) **
174. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
175. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
176. Federal Executive Boards (FEBs)
177. Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC)
178. Federal Financing Bank (FFB)
179. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
180. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
181. Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
182. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)
183. Federal Judicial Center
184. Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA)
185. Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC)
186. Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC)
187. Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK)
188. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC)
189. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS)
190. Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
191. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
192. Federal Protective Service (FPS)
193. Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
194. Office of the Federal Register (OFR)
195. Federal Reserve **
196. Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB)
197. Federal Student Aid Information Center
198. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
199. Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
200. Federal Voting Assistance Program
201. United States Fire Administration (USFA)
202. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
203. U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFFC)
204. National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
205. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) **
206. Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
207. Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
208. Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)
209. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission (FCSC)
210. Forest Service
211. Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM)
212. Freddie Mac
213. Fulbright Program
214. General Services Administration (GSA)
215. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
216. Ginnie Mae (a self-financing, wholly owned U.S. Government corporation within the Department of Housing and Urban Development. It is the primary financing mechanism for all government-insured or government-guaranteed mortgage loans.)
217. Government Accountability Office (GAO)
218. Office of Government Ethics (OGE)
219. Government Publishing Office (GPO)
220. Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation
221. Holocaust Memorial Museum
222. Division of Hours and Wages (WHD)
223. Office of Inspector General (OIG)
224. House Office of the Clerk
225. Office of Housing
226. Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER) (responsible for protecting immigrants authorized to work in the U.S. against employment discrimination.)
227. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
228. Indian Arts and Crafts Board (IACB)
229. Indian Health Service (IHS)
230. U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) (responsible for defending and promoting U.S. interests in the Pacific and Asia.) **
231. Indoor Air Quality Division (IAQ) (A division of the EPA)
232. Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
233. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
234. Inter-American Foundation (IAF)
235. Interagency Alternative Dispute Resolution Working Group
236. Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds
237. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) **
238. U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) (is America’s development bank. DFC partners with the private sector to finance solutions to the most critical challenges facing the developing world.) **
239. International Trade Administration (ITA)
240. International Trade Commission (USITC)
241. Interpol
242. James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation
243. Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUSFC)
244. Job Corps
245. John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
246. Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries
247. Joint Chiefs of Staff
248. Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC)
249. Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP)
250. Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP)
251. Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (JPEO-CBRND)
252. Judicial Circuit Courts of Appeal
253. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML)
254. Office of Justice Programs (OJP)
255. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
256. Legal Services Corporation
257. Library of Congress
258. Manufactured Housing Program (OMHP)
259. Marine Mammal Commission
260. Maritime Commission (MARAD)
261. U.S. Marshals Service (USMS)
262. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS)
263. Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC)
264. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)
265. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB)
266. Migratory Bird Conservation Commission
267. Military Postal Service Agency (MPSA)
268. Office of Minority Health (OMH)
269. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) (partners with the best-governed poor countries worldwide to promote economic growth and help people lift themselves out of poverty.)
270. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)
271. Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA)
272. U.S. Mint
273. Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
274. Mississippi River Commission (MRC)
275. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
276. National Cancer Institute (NCI)
277. National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC)
278. National Cemetery Administration (NCA)
279. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
280. National Constitution Center
281. National Council on Disability (NCD)
282. National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)
283. National Defense University (NDU)
284. National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
285. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
286. National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)
287. National Gallery of Art
288. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
289. National Health Information Center (NHIC)
290. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
291. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
292. National Indian Gaming Commission
293. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
294. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) **
295. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS **
296. National Institute of Corrections (NIC)
297. National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
298. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
299. National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
300. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
301. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
302. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
303. National Institutes of Health (NIH) **
304. National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC)
305. National Invasive Species Information Center (NISIC)
306. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
307. National Laboratories
308. National Library of Medicine (NLM)
309. National Marine Fisheries Service
310. National Mediation Board (NMB)
311. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
312. National Ocean Service (NOS)
313. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) **
314. National Park Foundation (NPF)
315. National Park Service (NPS)
316. National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC)
317. CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN)
318. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) (is responsible for designing, building, launching, and maintaining intelligence satellites.)
319. National Science Foundation (NSF)
320. National Security Agency (NSA) **
321. National Security Council (NSC)
322. National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
323. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
324. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
325. National Weather Service
326. Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
327. Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR)
328. NOAA Fisheries
329. Northern Border Regional Commission
330. U.S Northern Command (USNORTHCOM)
331. The Office of Nuclear Energy
332. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
333. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB)
334. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB)
335. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
336. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC)
337. Office of Child Support Services (OCSS)
338. Office of Cuba Broadcasting (provides the Cuban people with news and information.)
339. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
340. Office of English Language Acquisition
341. Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER)
342. Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (OIEA)
343. Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes (OLHCHH)
344. Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation
345. Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
346. Manufactured Housing Program (OMHP)
347. Office of Multifamily Housing (MFH)
348. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)
349. Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
350. Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R)
351. Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE)
352. Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) **
353. Office of Science and Technology Policy (Secret Service)
354. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
355. Office of Servicemember Affairs (OSA)
356. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) **
357. Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
358. Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE)
359. Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA)
360. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
361. Office of the Pardon Attorney
362. Office of Weights and Measures (OWM)
363. Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)
364. Open World Leadership Center (administers the Open World program, one of the most effective U.S. exchange programs for countries of the post-Soviet era.) **
365. Office of the Pardon Attorney
366. U.S. Parole Commission
367. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
368. Peace Corps
369. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)
370. Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA)
371. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)
372. U.S. Postal Inspection Service
373. Postal Regulatory Commission
374. U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
375. President's Council on Fitness (PCSFN)
376. Presidio Trust
377. Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia
378. CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN)
379. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB)
380. Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH)
381. Radio Free Asia (RFA)
382. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
383. Radio Sawa (provide news to the people of the Middle East about the region, the world, and the United States.)
384. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB)
385. Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)
386. Risk Management Agency (RMA
387. Rural Business-Cooperative Service
388. Rural Development
389. Rural Housing Service
390. Rural Utilities Service (RUS)
391. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (GLS)
392. Secret Service
393. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
394. Selective Service System (SSS)
395. U.S. Sentencing Commission
396. Small Business Administration (SBA)
397. Smithsonian Institution
398. Social Security Administration (SSA)
399. Social Security Advisory Board (SSAB)
400. Southeastern Power Administration
401. U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)
402. Southwestern Power Administration
403. U.S. Space Command
404. U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)
405. State Justice Institute (SJI)
406. Stennis Center for Public Service
407. U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)
408. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
409. U.S. Supreme Court
410. Surface Transportation Board (STB)
411. Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC)
412. Tax Court
413. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
414. United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA)
415. U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
416. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) **
417. U.S. Trustee Program
418. Udall Foundation
419. Department of State Undersecretary for Political Affairs
420. Unified Combatant Commands
421. Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU)
422. United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
423. U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH)
424. Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS)
425. Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)
426. Voice of America (VOA)
427. Washington Headquarters Services (WHS)
428. U.S. Military Academy at West Point
429. Western Area Power Administration (WAPA)
430. White House
431. Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB)
432. Department of Labor's Women's Bureau
433. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars **
434. Air Force
435. Air Force Reserve
436. Air Force Reserve Command
437. Army
438. U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) (safeguards the maritime interests of the United States and the environment around the world.)
439. Marine Corps
440. National Guard
441. Navy