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Why Trump is so threatening to the permanent bureaucracy
Washington Examiner ^ | 20 Feb, 2025 | Byron York

Posted on 02/23/2025 6:05:21 AM PST by MtnClimber

There was a moment in Sean Hannity’s Fox News interview with President Donald Trump and DOGE czar Elon Musk when Musk seemed to contemplate — as if for the first time — the existence of what used to be called the “permanent bureaucracy” and now sometimes goes by “deep state.”

“There’s a vast federal bureaucracy that is implacably opposed to the president and the cabinet,” Musk said. “And you look at, say, DC voting. It’s 92% Kamala … I think about that number a lot. That’s basically everyone. And so, if the will of the president is not implemented, and the president is representative of the people, that means the will of the people is not being implemented, and that means we don’t live in a democracy. We live in a bureaucracy.”

Musk made a minor error in the District of Columbia voting numbers. Yes, in the 2020 election, with former President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket, 92.1% of district voters chose Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, versus 5.4% for Trump. In 2024, when Harris was the presidential candidate, 90.3% voted for her versus 6.5% for Trump. So, Musk was a couple of points off for 2024.

You get the idea. The district, home of the federal government, is a single-party jurisdiction, and it has voted 90%-plus for Democrats for president for the last 20 years.

But, the permanent bureaucracy does not all squeeze into the district. It also lives in several surrounding counties. Montgomery County, Maryland, voted 75% for Harris, while Prince George’s County, Maryland, voted 86% for Harris. In Virginia, Alexandria voted 77% for Harris, Arlington County also voted 77% for Harris, and Fairfax County voted 66% for Harris.

So yes, the heart of the deep state is overwhelmingly Democratic. You will not be surprised to learn that, of the federal employees who contributed to a presidential candidate in 2024, most gave to Harris. The publication Government Executive reported that federal employees donated “at least $4.2 million” in the 2024 race, and nearly 84% went to Harris.

Breaking things down a bit, Government Executive reported that more than 61% of Trump’s relatively meager donations came from two cabinet agencies, the Defense Department and the Department of Homeland Security. The rest of the executive branch’s money went to Harris. “The Education Department had the most one-sided donation breakdown,” Government Executive said. “Employees there gave more than $25,000 to Harris and did not make a single donation to Trump, according to FEC records. That was followed by the Environmental Protection Agency, with 99% of donations going to [Harris], the Energy Department at 97%, the Commerce Department at 96%, and the State Department at 94%.”

When it comes to federal government workers, political donations go almost entirely in one direction....SNIP


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 02/23/2025 6:05:21 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The parasite vote.


2 posted on 02/23/2025 6:05:31 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

2 death attempts. It’s serious.


3 posted on 02/23/2025 6:09:55 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: MtnClimber
from Imgflip Meme Generator

4 posted on 02/23/2025 6:10:02 AM PST by VRW Conspirator ( Now open: DOW - Department of Winning)
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To: MtnClimber

Why Trump is so threatening to the permanent bureaucracy

Because they realize they may not be permanent?


5 posted on 02/23/2025 6:10:10 AM PST by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: MtnClimber

President Trump and Elon Musk are the greatest threat to RAT bureaucrazy.


6 posted on 02/23/2025 6:10:34 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cartel Human Smuggling Into America IS NOT Immigration. It's a crime.)
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To: sasquatch

I think some of their reaction/feelings are outrage versus feeling threatened (which they do). With numbers like those in the article (and witnessing these people first hand), they believe that the government belongs to them. They own, they run it. Trump is an uninvited, unwelcome interloper and how dare he and his J6 cretins and rubes from flyover country invade their turf. That’s the outrage. The threat is they realize, that, at least for now, the jig is up. The bureaucracy considers this their Holocaust. And they will seek revenge on their Hitler who caused this.


7 posted on 02/23/2025 6:19:01 AM PST by vivenne (7Come to think of it. )
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To: Taxman

ping


8 posted on 02/23/2025 6:37:10 AM PST by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! SUPPORT THE FAIRTAX!)
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To: MtnClimber

So basically, the democrat party is the source of our problems as a country.


9 posted on 02/23/2025 6:40:45 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: bk1000

Yrp.


10 posted on 02/23/2025 6:48:43 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: bk1000

Yep.


11 posted on 02/23/2025 6:49:00 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: bk1000

That has been true for a very long time


12 posted on 02/23/2025 6:51:25 AM PST by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: MtnClimber
The parasite vote.

Do you remember that the government employee union, the SEIU was only made possible by a little noticed (at the time) EO from JFK? Can you imagine the hootin' and hollerin' if that EO was reversed, the SEIU decertified, and saner, performance based criteria were put in place for government workers?

13 posted on 02/23/2025 7:38:07 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: DIRTYSECRET

That we know of, probably many more that we don’t know about.


14 posted on 02/23/2025 7:51:47 AM PST by desertfreedom765
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To: MtnClimber

Make DC a nonvoting territory of the US—and close down the DC courts.


15 posted on 02/23/2025 7:55:27 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: MtnClimber

So nonsubscribers get the preamble, but not the answer to the title?


16 posted on 02/23/2025 7:56:43 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Pearls Before Swine

No governments should have unions.


17 posted on 02/23/2025 7:57:33 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: MtnClimber

The article’s focus on the bureaucracy is correct but very incomplete.

Surrounding the bureaucracy is a complex set of US and international NGO’s and corporations that get money from the bureaucracy and then do something or other with it in the most complex and impossible to follow manner. This provides employment and huge tranches of money for left-wing causes and puts money in their pocket to donate back to politicians who will look the other way on the bureaucracy’s fraud.

Taxpayers fund their own enslavement.


18 posted on 02/23/2025 8:00:31 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: MtnClimber

Does the article ever make the point?


19 posted on 02/23/2025 9:53:40 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: vivenne

We, the normal people, are the deep state / leftist’s Hitler as far as they are concerned.


20 posted on 02/23/2025 10:50:13 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Russia? China? Democrats and RINOs are the biggest threat to the survival of America.)
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