A recent survey of government officials revealed that 42% of them intend to oppose the incoming Trump administration.
According to To Daily Signal Editor-in-Chief Tyler O'Neal: “A shocking number of federal employees have admitted they are preparing to act like the deep state in opposition to the incoming second administration of Donald Trump. There is.”
he quoted public opinion poll According to commissioned RMG Research Survey by Napolitan Institute.
This is not surprising. Many of the federal bureaucrats were recruited from liberals who came to Washington to impose their values and views on the American people. Many regulators see their job as forcing Americans to do what bureaucrats have forbidden.
Trump and the “Make America Great Again” movement pose a deadly threat to these bureaucrats. If President-elect Donald Trump does what he said during the campaign, it will threaten the life's work of many senior federal officials. Everything they have spent years trying to impose on the American people will be wiped away by the Trump administration.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami's new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is an example of the threat President Trump poses to establishment bureaucrats. President's goal reduce $2 trillion Funds from government spending will shatter the patterns, habits, procedures, and systems of the bureaucratic Washington establishment.
Imagine spending 20 or 30 years methodically building a system that could achieve your ideological goals even if the American people opposed it. Now imagine that your life's work is suddenly threatened by an outsider, a successful businessman outside of the typical Washington environment. You will be horrified. In your place, a barbarian will be at the gate.
This is not a new problem. A senior official in President George W. Bush's Pentagon once told me that the Pentagon bureaucracy was simply hunkering down to survive the new administration. They call the appointed officials “summer helpers.”
During the first Trump administration, a senior State Department official pointed out to me that the Foreign Service had about 27 appointees and 13,000 full-time bureaucrats working against them. Like a Paul Newman movie.”Fort Apache, Bronx“We're in a building and they surround us,” he told me.
This continuing problem of bureaucrats manipulating or ignoring elected officials has been brilliantly highlighted in two BBC TV series.Yes, Minister” and “Yes, Prime Minister“producer anthony jay He was a senior advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Many of the episodes arose from actual attempts by civil servants against the prime minister. she said so her favorite TV program. All Trump appointees should watch this series.
Trump's extraordinary goals will be impossible to achieve if 43 percent of senior officials are actively undermining him. Moreover, bureaucracy that overrides elected officials violates President Abraham Lincoln's principles. clearly expressed in Gettysburg. We want “government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
Lincoln understood the importance of having an elected executive control the instruments of government. In a small government (exploded in size to win the Civil War), Lincoln replaced 1,200 out of 1,500 policy-making bureaucrats.
Many of the people Lincoln replaced were Southerners; Or a pro-Southern factionhe could not have won the war if they had remained in that position. Replacing opponents within the government with supporters was one of the key decisions that allowed the Union Army to endure and win four long, grueling years of war.
President Trump has no power to proportionately change today's much larger government (nor does he have an immediate replacement).
But he needs the ability to replace bureaucrats who are clearly trying to sabotage, delay or undermine policy.
This is an important principle that the American people embrace. Once you elect a chief executive, that person should be able to execute. If we cannot do that, the entire system will be beyond the control of the American people.
of constitution There is no provision for acceptable bureaucratic tyranny. This provides that the people govern through elections to the House, Senate, and White House.
Controlling the rogue bureaucracy and passing the necessary laws to enforce that control will be a key test for the Trump administration and those who want to make America great again.
This will be one of the new government's first major battles.
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