Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins has proposed that Congress should assume control over the appointments of key legislative branch agencies, such as the Library of Congress and the Government Accountability Office (GAO), to clearly define them as congressional entities. Collins emphasized that these agencies should be under congressional oversight, not the executive branch, following recent controversies involving the firing of agency heads by President Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) seeking to influence these bodies. The push for legislative action signals a growing bipartisan interest in redefining the role of the executive branch in managing these agencies, which could affect the balance of power within the federal government.