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Report: Donald Trump Plots Purging Administrative State Employees if Reelected
Breitbart ^ | 22 Jul 2022 | WENDELL HUSEBØ

Posted on 07/22/2022 10:49:12 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

Former President Donald Trump’s potential return to the Oval Office will include an effort to purge the unaccountable administrative state that creates and directs vast amounts of far-left policy in the federal government, a report Friday by Axios detailed.

If reelected in 2024, Trump is planning to cut about 50,000 administrative state employees to rein in unelected technocrats in federal government agencies that have great influence over policies impacting American workers, according to the outlet.

“The impact could go well beyond typical conservative targets such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Internal Revenue Service,” the report explained. “Trump allies are working on plans that would potentially strip layers at the Justice Department — including the FBI, and reaching into national security, intelligence, the State Department and the Pentagon, sources close to the former president say.”

The term administrative state specifically describes the phenomenon of unaccountable and unelected administrative agencies exercising power to create and enforce their own rules.

The administrative state uses its rule-making ability to essentially usurp the separation of powers between the three branches of government by creating a so-called fourth branch of government not created by the Constitution. Nearly 2 million federal government employees in federal agencies make up the administrative state. Trump has referred to the administrative state as the “swamp.”

Before Trump left office in 2021, he signed an executive order (EO) to reclassify federal government employees into Schedule F, which would have allowed the president to enhance accountability and job performance within the bureaucratic agencies.

“Unfortunately, the Government’s current performance management is inadequate, as recognized by Federal workers themselves,” the EO reads. “For instance, the 2016 Merit Principles Survey reveals that less than a quarter of Federal employees believe their agency addresses poor performers effectively.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: americanthinker; axios; breitbart; jonathanswan; rajanlaad; wendellhusebo
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1 posted on 07/22/2022 10:49:12 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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GOOD and purge every single commie in the DOJ as well as the FBI..we need a MASSIVE PURGE the more the merrier


2 posted on 07/22/2022 10:51:15 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: SoConPubbie

Something he was urged to do within weeks of his 1st term......it was called CLEAN HOUSE!


3 posted on 07/22/2022 10:51:51 AM PDT by cranked
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To: SoConPubbie

He won’t be fooled again...


4 posted on 07/22/2022 10:52:29 AM PDT by Mathews (It's all gravy, baby!)
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To: SoConPubbie

Its my opinion that in 2016, Trump both “trusted” Federal Government (in a general sense) and that he could control rogue apparatchiks and agencies through the force of his personality.

I assume now he is disabused of both of those notions.


5 posted on 07/22/2022 10:53:35 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: SoConPubbie

saw an interesting post from a former hedge fund manager

Trump is Nixon
Biden is Carter
Destanis is Reagan.

I think he was talking about terms and not that Trump was a crook. Biden is worse than Carter.


6 posted on 07/22/2022 10:53:36 AM PDT by RummyChick
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I agree that these things are cyclical.


7 posted on 07/22/2022 10:56:02 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: SoConPubbie

The Kenyanesian Usurper stuffed our government, ALL agencies, FULL of communists.

A purge is needed if we are to remain a free country.


8 posted on 07/22/2022 10:56:11 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SoConPubbie

“Plots”?
Did the author actually think this is a good word choice?
Seems pejorative, maybe Plans or Intends might have been better?
In any case this would be THE BEST reason to see Trump elected!


9 posted on 07/22/2022 10:56:20 AM PDT by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV groupthink!)
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To: RummyChick
Trump is Nixon
Biden is Carter
Destanis is Reagan.


I would argue that Trump is more Reagan than Nixon.

Nixon had too many socialistic, big government tendencies for that comparison to be apt.

The better comparison is that Trump is a pugilistic, common-man Reagan and that DeSantis is Trump without the foreign policy experience and less Pugilism.

Which means DeSantis needs more experience and toughening up!
10 posted on 07/22/2022 10:57:16 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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MAGA!


11 posted on 07/22/2022 11:00:44 AM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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The pro purge people can’t go far enough as far as I’m concerned. I want the purging to be brutal and widespread. No mercy. Do what the Romans did to Carthage.


12 posted on 07/22/2022 11:01:15 AM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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His biggest mistake was not doing it on Jan 20, 2017.


13 posted on 07/22/2022 11:02:07 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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Currently the biden administration has the whole federal bureaucracy enlisted to get out the vote for democrats.

This is the kind of news that will ensure that in 2024 the entire federal bureacracy will be out to destroy Trump


14 posted on 07/22/2022 11:02:09 AM PDT by ckilmer (qui)
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again, I dont think he is talking characteristics. He is talking terms.


15 posted on 07/22/2022 11:02:28 AM PDT by RummyChick
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Report: Donald Trump Plots Purging Administrative State Employees if Reelected

A good start on Day 1; Next purge the DOJ and FBI TOP TO BOTTOM! Court Martial Milley-Vanilli and rid the DOD of ANY WOKE personnel!

16 posted on 07/22/2022 11:03:15 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Ultra MAGA!)
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I can’t wait till Trump is back in charge... he’s gonna clean that house like it’s never been cleaned before!!

Has needed it long time ago.... and Trump is the man... he’s about as fed up as we are!!


17 posted on 07/22/2022 11:03:22 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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18 posted on 07/22/2022 11:03:46 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: SoConPubbie

Trump needs to give orders from the White House. To hell with using an attorney general who will betray him. He needs to “bush hog” ALL the overgrown “weeds” across Washington DC.


19 posted on 07/22/2022 11:05:34 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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You mean like pudding head is purging Trump appointed immigration judges right now?


20 posted on 07/22/2022 11:06:34 AM PDT by pfflier
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