Draining the Swamp of Bureaucrats and Enemy Staffers

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

Trump’s leaks from within are being perpetrated by Obama administration holdovers, and other liberal left staffers who man the proverbial fourth branch of government, the administrative branch.  These people are not elected, and never seem to leave.  This year’s staffer for a Republican Congressman may have worked for a Democrat last year.  They are the keepers of the system, the readers and interpreters of bills, and the true controllers of the establishment.  And, the leftwing staffers and bureaucrats remaining in the federal government are as out of their mind crazy as the ones we’ve seen rioting, or throwing temper tantrums like petulant children against the changing of the guard in the White House to President Donald J. Trump.  Therefore, Trump needs to make a decision.  He needs to cut federal positions.  It will assist in draining the swamp, while also reducing federal expenditures that are often unconstitutionally being spent, anyway.

According to Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning, President Trump needs to get rid of “rogue bureaucrats [who] are not serving the American people” by “cutting the personnel budgets of non-defense civilian departments and agencies, reducing the enacted full-time equivalent number for each department, agency and office by 10 to 20 percent reduction in the workforce on a last-one-in, first-one-out basis,” according to a statement released recently.

“By now it should be abundantly clear to the Trump administration that there are Obama administration holdovers in the 1.3 million non-defense, civilian federal workforce who have no other intention than to politically damage the White House,” Manning said.

In short, the Obama holdovers are sabotaging the Trump administration, be it through secretly circulating emails among fellow ideologically committed members of the federal bureaucracy plotting strategy, or by working behind the scenes with Democratic legislators to create out-of-the-ordinary bureaucratic actions, to leaking confidential documents to the press.