April 16, 2024
How Trump Held Bureaucrats Accountable
This article originally appeared in Daily Caller on April 16, 2024
Last week, the Biden administration published regulations that will make firing senior federal employees who place politics ahead of the people functionally impossible. President Joe Biden may find that acceptable because most career federal employees share his politics.
He should think again.
As the State Department’s reaction to Biden’s Israel policy shows, career bureaucrats can resist presidents of both parties. Empowering career officials to resist the elected president undermines democracy...
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