He is inside their decision making loop, and moving faster than they can respond.
Which is pretty cool.
However, the government is made up of people who are not very happy with President Trump right now, and worried for their jobs. People like the department of Education, who have a number of fully armed shock troops.
This could get very interesting.
If the DoEd does have "fully armed shock troops", my guess is they are a bunch of guys who like running around in Combat Gear, growling fiercely and collecting a decent paycheck. I would not expect them to be especially loyal to the Liberal agenda or the people currently running DoEd.
We'll see.