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Editor’s note: The following column was first published by Creators Syndicate.
The Biden administration is setting a booby trap in case a Republican wins the presidency in 2024.
On Friday, the White House unveiled a proposed rule that would make it exceptionally difficult for an incoming Republican president to gain control of the left-leaning federal bureaucracy and effectively implement conservative policies that were promised to voters.
Among the 2.2 million federal civil workers, only 4,000 are presidential appointees. The remaining individuals retain their positions from one administration to the next, protected by stringent rules that make it nearly impossible to discipline or replace them.
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These civil workers overwhelmingly favor the left. Shockingly, 95% of unionized federal employees who donate to political candidates support Democrats, according to Open Secrets. Only a meager 5% back Republicans.
Some high-ranking federal workers intentionally impede or even derail the agenda of a Republican president — and face no consequences.
Why bother voting if the left-leaning deep state remains in control regardless of the election outcome?
GOP candidates Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Ron DeSantis have pledged to tackle this obstructionism.
Everett Kelley, the union president of the American Federation of Government Employees, falsely claims that GOP contenders want to “politicize routine government work.” This is baseless. We are not referring to mail carriers, but rather lawyers, PhDs, and other high-level career bureaucrats, who should be implementing the president’s agenda, not their own.
After Trump’s victory in 2016, these bureaucrats obstructed him on nearly every policy front, as explained by James Sherk, a special assistant to the White House Domestic Policy Council during Trump’s administration.
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Career lawyers in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division blatantly refused to challenge Yale University’s discrimination against Asian American applicants. Trump had to recruit lawyers from other divisions. After Joe Biden assumed the presidency, the case was dropped by the DOJ. However, the same career lawyers who refused to sue Yale made an unsuccessful argument in support of affirmative action before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Career health officials like Dr. Deborah Birx disregarded Trump’s instructions to moderate COVID lockdowns. Environmental Protection Agency lawyers pursued cases against fossil fuel producers and hid information from Trump appointees.
Dr. Deborah Birx served as the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under President Donald Trump from 2020 to 2021.
Trump issued an executive order in 2020 mandating that new federal buildings be designed to appease the public’s preference for classical designs. However, architects from the General Services Administration chose modern designs that they favored. Trump specifically mentioned the San Francisco Federal Building as an example, branding it as the ugliest edifice in the city.
These issues persist, including the weaponization of the FBI against the president himself.
In October 2020, Trump issued an executive order that reclassified federal workers who make policy as at-will employees who could be terminated. However, before the order could be implemented, Biden assumed the presidency and promptly rescinded it, knowing that the bureaucrats were aligned with him.
The rule announced on Friday would impede a president’s ability to reinstate Trump’s order. Democrats in Congress are going even further, attempting to eliminate the president’s authority to reclassify jobs entirely.
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The New York Times announced, “Biden Administration Aims to Trump-Proof the Federal Work Force.”
Ramaswamy goes a step beyond Trump, pledging to eliminate half or more of civil service positions. “Speaking as a CEO, if somebody works for you and you can’t fire them, they don’t work for you,” he said in a speech on Sept. 12.
New York Magazine sarcastically argues that holding employees accountable poses a threat to good government and warns that a Republican victory will result in “a new class of federal appointees charged with a partisan agenda.”
Democrats and their media allies falsely romanticize civil service, claiming it prioritizes “merit” rather than patronage.
Merit was the original intention when the civil service was established in 1883 by the Pendleton Act. However, merit has largely vanished. Rearrange those five letters and you have the “timer” system. Federal workers receive higher salaries and more substantial benefits compared to their private-sector counterparts performing similar roles. Furthermore, they rarely face termination, regardless of their performance. They simply need to put in their time and they receive a luxurious retirement package.
It’s a lucrative arrangement funded by the taxpayers. This is reprehensible enough, but it becomes even worse when these civil “servants” prioritize their own leftist beliefs over the president and the public they are supposed to serve.
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Kudos to the GOP candidates who are committed to challenging the deep state — teeming with deadbeats and leftists — and restoring government to the people. It’s a noble cause.
Shame on Biden for protecting the bureaucracy instead of democracy.
Not in America.
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