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Promising to "drain the swamp," President Trump says his administration will remove any officials who resist changes and restore what he calls "true democracy" in America. He touted cuts to the ...

“It’s the president deciding how the executive branch is going to run, which is very much the opposite of how it has long been run, where the bureaucracy is kind of leading things even though ...

"No, I know it is 100 percent true that bureaucracy is not aligned ­with – mostly not aligned with Republicans," Jennings told the panel, which proceeded to begin talking over one another to ...

Elon Musk’s month-long rampage through the US federal bureaucracy met its first real test over the weekend, as some of President Donald Trump’s top loyalists flatly rejected the billionaire ...

At Last, the Medical Establishment’s Support for ‘Gender Affirming Care’ Begins to Crack Our Foreign Policy Interest in Stopping Lawless Campus-Protest Mayhem Black Bag: Spies Mix Business ...

For the fight ahead for democracy and the working class, unions should care less about preserving their bureaucracy and more about supporting the rank-and-file. A strong, class-conscious labor ...

Brutalist architecture in the United States is a monument to collective postwar optimism and reassurance that the city and federal governments are in authority. Conceived as an embodiment of ...

"Whenever you go to any big institution or the government, the bureaucracy pushes back on everything. And they will here. Every little thing, they’re going to push back on. So, you have to be ...

"Yet, instead of addressing these urgent issues, the governor is laser-focused on cutting 'bloat' from a bureaucracy he and his own party built, mismanaged and weaponized against Floridians." ...