President Donald Trump has taken aim at the rot in the federal bureaucracy, but he will continue to face an entrenched deep state because the rules protect it, warns a radio host who once helped President Ronald Reagan combat the bureaucracy.
Americans may not know that radio host and author Hugh Hewitt once worked in the heart of the executive branch, serving as general counsel and deputy director at the Office of Personnel Management, the human resources department of the federal government.
Hewitt praised Trump’s work, but he also laid out the gargantuan task ahead of the president and others who would attempt to reform the administrative state.
“I just am very impressed with the first, now it’s 102 days,” Hewitt told The Daily Signal in an interview at the Job Creators Network’s Freedom Fighters Summit Friday.
“President Trump is resolved not to have…
