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Trump Admin Institutes 80-Hour Constitution Course for ‘Deep State’ Execs
Real Clear Politics ^ | May 29, 2025 | Philip Wegmann

Posted on 05/30/2025 10:14:13 AM PDT by Twotone

As the administration continues to remake the federal bureaucracy to President Trump’s liking, the Office of Personnel and Management has developed an intensive new training program for those aspiring to join the Senior Executive Service, the upper echelon of government employees.

Per an OPM memo, obtained first by RealClearPolitics, the syllabus includes course work grounded in the U.S. Constitution, “Founding ideals of our government,” and Trump’s own executive orders.

The development program requires 80 hours of video-based training and culminates in two days of in-person training in Washington, D.C. It will affect government employees across the administration and disparate agencies and go live this September. The stated goal: “Ensure that SES officials uphold the Constitution and the rule of law and effectively serve the American people.”

This is the latest effort in the ongoing campaign to crush what the White House sees as an unaccountable administrative state. Trump began slashing and burning his way through the agencies as soon as he returned to office, with a particular emphasis on the Senior Executive Service.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: constitution; philipwegmann; realclearbias; realclearpolitics; ses; trump
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1 posted on 05/30/2025 10:14:13 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Sounds appropriate.


2 posted on 05/30/2025 10:17:37 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Twotone
Trump Admin Institutes 80-Hour Constitution Course for ‘Deep State’ Execs

Pass or Hang!

3 posted on 05/30/2025 10:20:03 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: Twotone
I've posted that all elected politicians, higher political appointees and the like need a yearly course on the Constitution - just like they have them on IT Security and Workplace Behavior - for about 25 years!

I have to wonder if one of my posts perculated through.
4 posted on 05/30/2025 10:21:07 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: Twotone

They take an oath to protect and preserve the constitution. One should not take oaths lightly.


5 posted on 05/30/2025 10:22:07 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Twotone

I remember on my first job, I spent the first two weeks watching training videos.


6 posted on 05/30/2025 10:22:47 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (Don’t want to hurt no kangaroos )
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To: traderrob6

Yes, a worthwhile education for these execs but the real problem is a complete lack of accountability in DC. Until that changes, nothing will change.


7 posted on 05/30/2025 10:23:06 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Twotone

We should end the SES. It’s the root of the deep state.


8 posted on 05/30/2025 10:27:31 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Imagine what we'll know tomorrow.)
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To: Twotone

After they take the course, fire them.


9 posted on 05/30/2025 10:28:45 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: Twotone
This is not just symbolic - it's setting people in government up for termination if they violate the Constitution.

President Trump's team is quietly but very carefully laying the legal and administrative foundation to take very aggressive measures against a wide spectrum of undesirable and destructive segments of our society chief amount them rouge bureaucrats and illegal aliens.

10 posted on 05/30/2025 10:28:54 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: traderrob6
It's nice in a way, but not all the Deep State is in the federal bureaucracy.

A lot of it is NGOs, corporations, and even private individuals.

11 posted on 05/30/2025 10:29:45 AM PDT by Salman (Avoid foreign entanglements.)
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The entire SES and their combined staffs should have been fired on Day One.

Every last one of them.

L


12 posted on 05/30/2025 10:32:22 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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“rouge bureaucrats…”

They’re as bad as rogue bureaucrats.

L


13 posted on 05/30/2025 10:33:42 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker

Worse actually :-).

FWIW, I did a spell check before posting


14 posted on 05/30/2025 10:39:53 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: traderrob6

Is it pass/fail you get to update your resume or just meeting room lecture that will achieve nothing.


15 posted on 05/30/2025 10:42:38 AM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (Treason is the reason for Democrat Sedition & subvertion )
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To: Twotone

Grand idea!


16 posted on 05/30/2025 10:42:52 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Twotone

I’ve read that the first year at Hillsdale College is an intense, deep-dive into the glory that is the Founding of the United States of America.

Perhaps this could also be mandatory. In fact, make them pay for Hillsdale out of their own pocket. THEN, they would have some skin in the game.


17 posted on 05/30/2025 10:46:21 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Twotone

Good!


18 posted on 05/30/2025 10:46:45 AM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be a slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: Lurker

“Every last one of them”

Oh they could be allowed to re-apply for their jobs.

That would establish the real point: they’re employees, not royalty.

The Constitution that they are going to be familiarized with - and which they will then routinely ignore - mentions that no titles of nobility will be conferred. But that’s precisely what the SES is: titled nobility, unassailable, and usually protected by Sovereign Immunity.

There’s not a single person who fought the Revolution for such a group to be part of the government of the United States.


19 posted on 05/30/2025 10:48:45 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Twotone

Will probably be the first time they actually learn about the constitution. Need the DOI as well.


20 posted on 05/30/2025 10:50:28 AM PDT by Mlheureux
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