SCHEDULE F: CAN TRUMP KILL THE DEEP STATE?

Deep State Creatures Do Not Identify As "Public Servants"

"The deep state must and will be brought to heel.  We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the president of the United States," he said at a rally in South Carolina in March. Thus, President Donald Trump renewed his pledge, first made a year ago, to revive an initiative to strip tens of thousands of federal employees of their civil service protections and “shatter the deep state” if elected again. 

Just weeks before the November 2020 election, President Trump signed an executive order establishing a Schedule F within the federal government’s excepted service for federal workers in policy-related jobs and exempting their positions from most civil service protections. The EO ordered agencies to identify positions that would qualify for the new job classification and convert employees in those jobs to Schedule F, effectively making them at-will employees.

Although some agencies had begun work on the process of finding and requesting permission to reclassify employees to Schedule F (the Office of Management & Budget received the go ahead to convert 68% of its workforce to the new job classification) ultimately there wasn’t enough time to implement the order before Joe Biden was inaugurated.  Wanting to maintain and strengthen the Deep State, Biden’s handlers quickly rescinded Trump’s Executive Order.

In a video message posted to Rumble, a YouTube alternative, Trump vowed to revive Schedule F immediately upon his return to the White House and to remove bureaucrats in national security and law enforcement agencies, who are persecuting conservatives.  Americans have become aware that federal law enforcement has been “weaponized” against conservatives under the Biden Regime.

“Here’s my plan to dismantle the deep state and reclaim our democracy from Washington corruption once and for all, and corruption it is,” he said. “First, I will immediately re-issue my 2020 executive order restoring the president’s authority to remove rogue bureaucrats. And I will wield that power very aggressively. Second, we will clean out all the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus, and there are plenty of them.”

TRUMP & DeSANTIS AGREE

Since leaving office, a team of former Trump Administration officials have continued to work on Schedule F so that it can be reinstituted under a Republican president. Last year this team told reporters that they had already identified 50,000 federal employees (out of 2 million) who could be immediately moved to Schedule F. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is also running in the GOP presidential primary, similarly endorsed reviving the initiative.

“Well, there was a proposal that I think a lot of us wanted to see under the prior administration to do a Schedule F,” DeSantis said. “So anyone who has any policy role is classified as a Schedule F, and they can be removed by the president. The left would litigate that, but I honestly think we would win on that in the Supreme Court.”

MOVING AGENCIES OUT OF THE DC SWAMP

Trump also proposed plans to move more agency headquarters out of the Washington DC area.  During his term, a pair of science agencies in the Agriculture Department relocated to Kansas City, Missouri, a decision that led to a mass exodus of employees (AKA Deep Swamp creatures) because they did not want to work with & live with the very farmers and ranchers they are regulating.  The Trump Administration also moved the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado.  The Biden Regime recently announced plans to move the BLM back to Washington DC, far away from the land they are supposed to manage.

“We will continue the effort launched by the Trump administration to move parts of the sprawling federal bureaucracy to new locations outside the Washington swamp . . . And I mean immediately out of Washington to places filled with patriots who love America, and they really do love America,” Trump said.

Trump also said that if re-elected, he would move to make agency inspectors general “independent and physically separated from the departments they oversee.”  Currently, inspectors general are housed in the agencies they oversee which leads to bias in favor of the departments they a supposed to objectively investigate.

CURRENT SYSTEM CREATED DEEP STATE

New presidents typically get to replace more than 4,000 "political" appointees to oversee the running of their administrations.  But below this rotating layer of political appointees sits a mass of government workers who enjoy strong employment protections and typically continue their service from one administration to the next regardless of the president's party affiliation.  Too many of them are more interested in maintaining their relatively luxurious lifestyles than they are performing their duties.  Indeed, they do not identify as “public servants,” but rather see themselves as superior to most of their fellow Americans.

Former President Trump’s top allies are preparing to radically reshape the federal government if he is re-elected, purging potentially thousands of civil servants and filling career posts with loyalists to his "America First” ideology.

Trump allies are working on plans that would potentially strip layers at the Justice Department including the FBI, and reaching into national security, intelligence, the State Department, the Pentagon and the IRS, sources close to the former president say.