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IN-DEPTH: Conservative Group Lays Out Plan to Gut Administrative State on Day 1 of 2nd Trump Term

Former Trump officials have a plan to eliminate the administrative state by replacing thousands of federal employees with ideological conservatives.
IN-DEPTH: Conservative Group Lays Out Plan to Gut Administrative State on Day 1 of 2nd Trump Term
The U.S. Department of Justice building in Washington on June 28, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
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Former President Donald Trump has vowed to finish “draining the swamp”—eliminating special interests and bad actors from the federal government—and make it easier to fire “rogue bureaucrats” who undermine presidential policies.

Other Republican candidates have even bolder plans to attack the so-called administrative state by eliminating entire federal agencies.