Trump to make a move on the deep state
The White House is taking a critical step to ensure that obstructionist deep-staters spread throughout the federal government at senior levels cannot choke essential information flows and altogether hinder agencies' execution of the president's agenda.
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management sent a memo Tuesday to the heads and acting heads of all federal departments and agencies, recommending that every agency revoke the "career reserved" status for their chief information officers. By doing so and by also opening the roles to "general" employees, the establishmentarians presently occupying the increasingly politicized roles can be easily canned and replaced by individuals actually willing to carry out the president's agenda.
The stated purpose of this move is to satisfy the Trump administration's desire to "improve the government's digital policy to make government more responsive, transparent, efficient, and accessible to the public, and to make using and understanding government programs easier."
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In order to accomplish what voters wanted it will be necessary to get support from people who will not be trying to thwart the Trump agenda. We are finding out more about how the deep state tries to control the Trump agenda.
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To understand what is going on with the bi-partisan Senate opposition to Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, think of an echo chamber. I know it’s difficult with all the unfocused political noise. But try concentrating on the silence of that echo chamber.
Because the Senators, both establishment Democrats and establishment Republicans want that echo chamber placed around President Donald Trump, so all he’ll hear are the war hawks singing for war with Iran.
Gabbard won’t be their puppet and sing for war with Iran. That’s one reason why they hate her. They want Trump in their echo chamber, to control what he knows and how he knows it. After what I saw of the Senate hearing, if President Trump truly wants her, he’ll have to fight for her and make it clear that Republicans who vote against her will face political primary opponents.
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