Bureaucrats’ 2020 Plot Shows More Of Them Need To Be Fired

As more details emerge about the deep state’s coordinated efforts to undermine President Donald Trump during the 2020 election, it’s clear that not only is Trump right to overhaul our bloated bureaucracy, but that more federal employees need to be shown the door.

Trump has offered a buyout to millions of federal employees, ended remote work, and has cut foreign aid to millions around the world in an effort to drain the swamp. By slashing unnecessary slush funds, he’s reducing the bloated federal workforce that’s been leeching off taxpayers.

Like clockwork, the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party released a series of reports infuriated about the moves. CNN reported “Federal employees confused, angered by Trump’s offer to quit,” while NBC News reported that “‘Fear’ and ‘chaos’ grip federal workers as Trump rapidly remakes the government,” as pointed out by Casey Chalk in these pages.

The Washington Post warned that “Trump’s revenge targets feds, expands his power and disrupts government.”

But if anything, Trump needs to scale up his efforts to clear out federal employees, because if 2020 showed us anything, it’s that the rot in DC runs deep in our federal agencies.

Just days before the 2020 election, far-left activist group Shutdown DC hosted a virtual event in conjunction with Feds for Democracy and Democracy Kitchen, entitled “Democracy Defense! Options for Federal Workers” to train federal employees “how to take action to choose democracy.”

The event suggested Trump might stage an “unconstitutional power grab” or a “coup” but that “federal workers play a key role in upholding democratic values for the entire country” and that “millions of workers across the country are in the federal service and take an oath to uphold the US Constitution, and millions more support federal government efforts as support staff, fellows, and researchers.”

Approximately 150 federal workers in the executive branch joined the call to discuss their “responsibilities” to stop Trump, according to Government Executive. Attendees were instructed to “consider ways to slow walk instructions coming from political appointees in a scenario in which the administration is denying its defeat at the polls,” according to Government Executive. One organizer reportedly told attendees to “perform duties at a foot dragging pace.”

Another speaker reportedly told attendees that “the rest of the country looks to us about what is normal and allowable.”

“We can help shape public opinion on what is right,” the speaker said, according to Government Executive.

In a series of videos purportedly from the event shared by independent journalist Millie Weaver, former Department of State official Maria J. Stephan discussed how federal employees can withhold cooperation to subvert an elected officials will. Shutdown DC did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment to confirm the authenticity of the videos. Stephan purportedly discussed how “power” is dispersed throughout society and then “concentrated” in “Pillars of Support.” Stephan argues federal employees can subvert the will of the president by withholding cooperation because they make up one of the pillars.

“If people in these pillars of support withhold or deny their consent and cooperation, meaning they stop obeying, they stop cooperating, and they engage in protests, boycotts, strikes, a whole host of other nonviolent tactics, that if masses of people engage in non-cooperation, no ruler can stay in power,” Stephan purportedly said.

Stephan went onto say “bureaucracy” is a powerful “pillar of support” in subverting the will of an elected official — proving Trump’s point in firing swaths of federal employees

“[Bureaucrats] know how to speed things up, they know how to slow them down. They have access to critical information,” Stephan purportedly said.

Stephan also highlighted that “leaking” to the press is one tool federal workers can use, while someone identified as Comrade Lokh chimed in to say that federal workers should “leak everything you can.”

“Can I just recommend, everyone who works in the federal government, if you read the mainstream press, like who is covering your agency, who is working for Pro Publica, who is working for Politico. They all have signal accounts. Text them, leak everything you can.”

At another point in the purported meeting, a woman only identified by her first name, Amy, asked whether she and others should “call into question — if we’re in the midst of a coup — should we even be listening to our politicals since they’re not here legitimately?”

It was a dangerous line of questioning and reveals a disturbing mindset among unelected bureaucrats who feel entitled to block the will of the people simply because they disagree with the elected leadership.

Weaver reports that attendees were provided with an “Activism Resources for Federal Workers Guide” that provides “strategies for balancing … obligations as federal employees and their professional and personal values.”

And remember — this was all happening while Trump was still president — before the election took place. But these federal employees made their biases well known. Had Trump remained in office for a consecutive term, these same employees — who openly questioned whether he would be a legitimate president — would have been there as well. And now we’re supposed to believe that they’d have gone from plotting against Trump to suddenly working with his administration for four years without any problems?

This type of backdoor, subversive behavior from federal bureaucrats is exactly why Trump’s push to overhaul the federal workforce is essential. These so called public servants are nothing more than activists in disguise, working to undermine the will of the people. If Trump’s agenda is going to succeed, he’s got to clean house — and that means draining the swamp.

Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2