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Presidents have long sought to shape the federal bureaucracy. But few have challenged it as aggressively as Donald Trump. Throughout his political career, Trump has argued that unelected bureaucrats—the so-called “deep state”—exercise too much influence over government policy. In his March 4, 2025 address to Congress, he declared, “The days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are […]
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Paul Verkuil, author of Valuing Bureaucracy The Case for Professional Government (2017), on the recent Comey firing and the perils of running a government like a business.
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