Donald Trump came prepared for war.
It’s not the kind of war that Democrats like to start. No guns. No deaths. Nobody will get maimed, at least not by Trump’s forces. But a war nonetheless.
The federal bureaucracy, which has been the most powerful and misunderstood force in our government for decades, is in revolt against the second Trump administration as they were in the first, but Trump isn’t using diplomacy this time to quell the conflict.
‼️Nicholas Gottlieb, the @USAID official who tried to cancel the Trump administration’s decision to put 60 career officials on admin leave (an by doing so also was placed on leave), repeatedly clashed with Trump appointees during the first term, knowledgable sources tell…
— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) January 31, 2025
I know that many federal employees were confident that they would be shielded from…
