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As someone who fought the first Trump administration’s bureaucratic Trench war, I was amazed everyone at the incredible speed at which Doge leader Elon Musk’s Blitzkrieg was at the heart of federal bureaucracy. Within days, President Donald Trump seized federal bureaucratic control, which he had never been fully under control during his first term.
A slower, more intentional approach could have avoided litigation and reduced collateral damage to some of the bureaucracy. However, the first Trump administration experience gave Trump and Doge a good reason to believe such an approach would halt.
One of the key lessons Trump learned from his first administration was that senior career officials, left to their own devices, could stoop him in hoping to thwart him. The most disturbing disobedience was the Crossfire Hurricane Scandal and subsequent investigations of Mueller’s investigation or Russian collusion. That crime would be considered comparable to Watergate today if the mainstream media paid attention to them.
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Before the 2016 Trump election, senior official FBI Peter Struzok and FBI director James Comey approved the spy to Trump’s campaigners, some of which were inaccurate and justified. did. Fisa Applications and fake information Steel Dager.
President Donald Trump says that his son Xæa-xii joined him and listened to him in his White House oval office on Tuesday, February 11, 2025 in Washington’s oval office. (Photo by Alex Brandon)
When Trump is elected, FBI officials like it Kevin Kleinsmith And Brian Orton and Justice Department lawyers like Bruce Ordinary and Dana Boente continued to carry out additional duplications of spying.
The government’s weaponization of Trump and his supporters has extended to federal agencies. The Pentagon abused its security clearance system to expel Adam Labure after locking up Trump’s allies and identifying misuse of government funds.
Career bureaucrats at USAID employment I reported some of them for corruption, so a similar tactic against me. The agency’s security directors, ethics lawyers and inspectors (people who were supposed to protect ethics) participated in moral torts.
During his first term, Trump also learned that federal officials were meant to spin slowly or completely hamper his policies. Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, secretly coordinated the March 2020 report and dismissed Wuhan Lab’s theory of leakage.
Career lawyers in the Department of Justice’s civil rights division undermined the department’s investigation and prosecution by refusing to address issues such as positive behaviour in women’s sports, religious freedom, and biological men. USAID officials deliberately hid the institution’s humanitarian program in Syria, as they feared that they would end the program if Trump learned about them.
Before serving the first Trump administration and learning about the Crossfire Hurricane, I would not have believed that senior career officials would systematically destroy the White House and its policies. There may be bad apples everywhere, but it seemed incredible that a considerable number of high-ranking officials had both boldness and authority to act.
The experience, along with Trump and many other Republicans, concluded that overthrows were widespread and therefore the need for future removal of vandals from federal officials. In late January, perhaps not by chance, USAID became the first institution to have numerous senior officials stumbled on the sidelines to resist White House policies.
Those new to the country’s past may portray Trump as aggressive as a radical break with tradition, but fierce resistance to bureaucracy dates back to the nation’s founding. In 1776, Americans expressed deep doubts about government officials, citing them as reasons for invading from England. The Declaration of Independence alleged that the UK “built numerous new offices and sent a flock of officers to harass our people and eat their substance.”
One of the 25 known surviving copies of the Declaration of Independence, printed on July 4, 1776, is on display at Sotheby’s on June 22, 2000 in New York City. (Chris Hondros/Newsmakers via Getty Images)
Both the right and left presidents downplayed federal bureaucracy at various times, demanding reductions in size and power. President Andrew Jackson has restricted government employment to four years. This is because men in long service “incline to develop the habit of looking at public interest in indifferent people.” President Bill Clinton cut the federal private workforce during 427,000 terms.
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The federal bureaucracy is growing and should be shrinking, but it cannot be ruled out. As the founders of this country recognized, sinful humanity requires the presence of government for specific purposes, such as enforcing laws, protecting against foreign enemies, and regulating commerce.
And as long as we have government, we need bureaucrats. Some bureaucrats must be kept from one administrator to the next. However, Congress should act to make layoffs of underperforming or unequal employees much easier than they do today.
The first Trump administration’s experience also showed that restraining the bureaucracy requires improvement not only on bureaucracy, but also on presidential appointees who work at the institution. By law, it takes career bureaucrats to follow the directions of political appointees, and most of what I have come across have done so.
Thus, competent, ethical, and committed to the principles of administration can guide the ship in the right direction when destructive bureaucrats and excess loads are offloaded.
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One reason why bureaucrats fled so much during Trump’s first term is that too many political appointees lack the desire and courage to stand up to them. The first Trump administration took power without a reservoir of such people.
For this reason, Trump and those around him have screened individuals for these jobs for the past few years. Some of his picks have sparked controversy even among his allies, but so far it appears that the new team can tame a bureaucracy that was not heeled at the end .
