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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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To: TalBlack

So, your approach is to respond by random actions!
If you have no plan, you cede the initiative to your adversary all you can do is react.


81 posted on 07/22/2022 7:09:09 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Reily

Enlighten me Sun Tzu what’s your big plan? Second time I’m asking.


82 posted on 07/23/2022 2:48:12 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: TalBlack

Read my posts on this!


83 posted on 07/23/2022 5:54:14 AM PDT by Reily
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