The federal bureaucracy is divided into fifteen different executive departments and hundreds of agencies, bureaus, boards, authorities, and administrations. The bureaucracy also includes independent agencies and government corporations such as the post office (Shmoop). The bureaucracy is a body of unelected official that are responsible for handling and enforcing day to day responsibilities made by the president and congress. So who controls the bureaucracy? All three of the branches have some influence over the bureaucracy. The two main branches are the legislative branch (congress) which has the authority to create these agencies, and the executive branch (the president) which is in charge of administrating these decisions. To go a little
