To an extent, you are right, but those end-runs mostly apply to Congressional procedural rules. Federal agencies, which include the NIAD, are so expansive---~3,000,000 employees---that they quite literally have their own court system to adjudicate complaints, and they rarely, if ever, rule against the employee. The only end-run really open to the President is to go all dictator-y and that has been the favorite smear against Trump, since before he even took office, lol. IF he had tried to fire Fauci, on his own, it would end up in impeachment, and rightfully so, because he would have been taking power that he doesn't have.
There are always end-runs. Laws? Hahahaha!!
To an extent, you are right, but those end-runs mostly apply to Congressional procedural rules. Federal agencies, which include the NIAD, are so expansive---~3,000,000 employees---that they quite literally have their own court system to adjudicate complaints, and they rarely, if ever, rule against the employee. The only end-run really open to the President is to go all dictator-y and that has been the favorite smear against Trump, since before he even took office, lol. IF he had tried to fire Fauci, on his own, it would end up in impeachment, and rightfully so, because he would have been taking power that he doesn't have.