The Biden administration has finalized rules that could protect the jobs of millions of federal employees as former President Donald Trump promises to “destroy” what he calls the “deep state” if he wins a second term in the White House.
President Joe Biden says the new rule will combat corruption and partisan interference to ensure civil servants can do their jobs, but the Right sees the decision as a way to protect an entrenched federal bureaucracy from a Republican president.
“It is high time for reform, and Joe Biden and his fellow corrupt deep state backers know this,” reads a statement from the Heritage Foundation-led Project 2025. “The bloated and uncontrollable administrative state needs to be streamlined, right-sized and depoliticized — which has not happened in nearly the past 50 years.”
The call for a smaller federal government dates back decades and…
