Time Magazine Interview: Trump Renews Pledge to Purge Administrative State
Former President Donald Trump renewed his pledge on Tuesday to purge the unaccountable and unelected administrative state that creates and directs vast amounts of far-left policy in the federal government.
In a lengthy Time Magazine feature article, Trump outlined many of the initiatives he would enact if he wins reelection. Perhaps the most important but also perhaps the most difficult to implement among the various initiatives is a thorough detox of the administration state, or the “swamp” and “deep state,” as Trump puts it.
“We will demolish the deep state,” Trump vowed in 2023. “We will expel the warmongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists. We will cast out the communists, Marxists and fascists. And we will throw off the sick political class that hates our country.”
The term “administrative state” specifically describes the phenomenon of unaccountable and unelected administrative agencies, including the national security apparatus, 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 formed by the Constitution.
Nearly two million federal government employees in federal agencies comprise the administrative state. When presidential administrations turn over after a Democrat or Republican candidate wins the presidency, the vast amount of the two million federal employees retain their positions of power and rule-making authority. The federal bureaucracy remains in place with the capacity to thwart political agendas championed by the president, who was chosen by the voters.
“When I first got to Washington, I knew very few people,” Trump told Time. “I had to rely on people.”
The administrative state holds significant institutional power because elected federal lawmakers essentially abdicated their responsibility, according to experts at conservative think tanks. Some conservative experts believe lawmakers should accomplish more legislative business and perform fewer public relations stunts that grow their political brand.
Many America First conservatives are working to alter the incentive structure within Washington. “The President never had a policy process that was designed to give him what he actually wanted and campaigned on,” Russell Vought, Trump’s former director of the Office of Management and Budget, told Time. “[We are] sorting through the legal authorities, the mechanics, and providing the momentum for a future Administration.”
Before Trump left office in 2021, he signed an executive order to reclassify federal government employees into Schedule F, which would have allowed the president to enhance accountability and job performance within the bureaucratic agencies. “You have some people that are protected that shouldn’t be protected,” Trump told Time about Schedule F.
President Joe Biden canceled the order when he assumed office in 2021, but if Trump reclaims the White House, he will reportedly reimplement the executive order and purge the unelected technocrats artificially running the federal government. “It would effectively upend the modern civil service, triggering a shock wave across the bureaucracy,” Axios previously concluded about the EO’s impact.
“The mere mention of Schedule F,” added Vought, “ensures that the bureaucracy moves in your direction.”
May 03, 2024, 03:38 PM
Pipe Smoker
^^^^^^ Re: “The mere mention of Schedule F,” added Vought, “ensures that the bureaucracy moves in your direction.”
The more these commie Demonrats are exposed, the better off we will all be... and the more fun satisfaction we conservatives will have in the knowledge that we were right all along!This message has been edited. Last edited by: bronicabill, May 04, 2024 01:46 PM
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May 04, 2024, 08:50 AM
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by parabellum: I am not a lawyer and I don't play one on TV, but somehow, this seems important:
Leftie provides the best campaign ad for Trump. Halt the treasury... no need to spend another penny! Even more telling when a someone in another country identifies it!
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May 05, 2024, 08:18 PM
sdy
remember this trash from 2016 ?
As Donald Trump is prosecuted for denying the 2020 election results
I didn't see that rubbish sdy. I think I could vomit. I wonder how those trash like the condition America is in now?
May 05, 2024, 09:18 PM
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Originally posted by David Lee: I didn't see that rubbish sdy. I think I could vomit. I wonder how those trash like the condition America is in now?
Do you seriously think any one of those assholes gives a two bit shit whether or not my deli oven roast cold cut turkey breast is now $14.99/lb instead of $11.99? They couldn't care less the conditions that middle America are facing under the Biden regime. Everything to them is just peachy.
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May 06, 2024, 11:06 AM
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Former President Trump did not personally direct a Trump Organization executive to set up reimbursement payments to former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, according to witness testimony Monday in the NY v. Trump case.
