How Trump is Reshaping the Deep State to His Advantage

Two new presidential actions provide Trump with tools to fire and hire new employees.

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Anthony Constantini
January 24, 2025

What’s happening: Amid the hundreds of executive actions President Donald Trump undertook on his first day in office, one memorandum to the White House Counsel and one executive order will empower Trump to remake much of the federal bureaucracy.

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