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Just Security quietly dropped a policy playbook today called the Reinvention Blueprints, and NOTUS ran the story that pulls back the curtain. In plain language: a band of former Biden officials and allied experts want to undo the shakeup tied to DOGE and rebuild a bigger, more centralized federal machine. If you thought Project 2025 got Democrats fired up, wait until they see what their own team cooked up.
What the Reinvention Blueprints actually propose
The blueprints push for a new Cabinet‑level “Department of Services” to gather procurement, IT, financial management and shared platforms under one roof. They also want a White House delivery unit — a Deputy Chief of Staff for Implementation and agency delivery teams — plus sweeping civil‑service reform to change pay, hiring and bargaining rules. Authors include K. Sabeel Rahman, Professor of Law at Cornell Law School; Dani Schulkin, Director of Democracy Initiatives at Just Security; Tara Dawson McGuinness and Amira Choueiki Boland of New Practice Lab; Rob Shriver of Democracy Forward; and Loren DeJonge Schulman at the Federation of American Scientists.
Why they say it’s urgent
The blueprints sell this as repair work after the chaos caused by DOGE. They cite an OPM figure that more than 430,000 federal workers left government service since January 2025 and argue we lost vital delivery capacity. That sounds like a real problem — but the authors’ solution is to centralize power, expand federal hiring tools, and rewrite collective‑bargaining rules. Translation: more bureaucracy, more taxpayer money flowing to a bigger machine that answers to the administration.
Political and practical fallout to expect
Put bluntly, most of these ideas need Congress. Title 5 changes, pay restructuring, and a new Cabinet department all demand votes and budget choices. Republicans who backed DOGE reforms will not quietly agree to a reverse sweep that re‑entrenches the administrative state. Federal unions will howl about any tweaks to bargaining. So this blueprint is both a policy wishlist and a political roadmap — designed to give the next Democratic administration talking points and an organizational plan if they win the argument.
Bottom line — why conservatives should care
This is the Left’s answer to DOGE: not a modest repair plan but a blueprint for re‑asserting federal control over daily operations and workforce rules. Conservatives should call this out for what it is — an effort to rebuild the old bureaucracy that many voters rejected. Watch Congress, OMB, OPM, and federal unions as this moves from think‑tank drafts to political fights. If you prefer smaller, smarter government over a new Department of Everything, now is the time to pay attention and make the case loud and clear.
