Restoring the Republic by Dismantling the Deep State
A Summary of the 47th Presidential Administration's First 100 Days
For far too long, the federal government has served not as a steward of liberty, but as a mechanism for central control—captured by an unelected bureaucracy whose primary mission was to preserve its own influence. This “deep state” operated beyond the reach of voters, entrenching itself through permanent funding pipelines, ideological enforcement arms, and policy machinery designed to override the will of the people. Power centers grew within this apparatus, acting as financial lifelines and enforcement tools for globalist and anti-American agendas. Rather than serving the people, this leviathan protected itself—expanding its reach through complexity, regulation, and unchecked authority.
President Abraham Lincoln once warned that our republic must remain “a government of the people, by the people, for the people” (Lincoln, 1863). Yet what we inherited was something quite different: a government of the bureaucrats, by the activists, and for the elites. This administration, supported by a clear electoral mandate, has responded by striking at the very heart of that system. It has begun restoring limited, constitutional government in line with the principles of Thomas Jefferson, who rightly feared the centralization of power and the rise of a bureaucratic aristocracy.
The campaign to dismantle the deep state began by eliminating its strongholds. The Department of Education, for example, had become a federal command center for progressive orthodoxy—dictating local curricula and channeling billions in taxpayer funds to activist programs under the guise of “equity” and “access” (National Review, 2024). Its abolition represented not just a budget cut, but the removal of a power center for ideological indoctrination and a funding hub for entrenched leftist interests.
Likewise, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was no longer simply about aid. It had morphed into a globalist grant-distribution network, exporting progressive ideology and bypassing Congressional oversight by embedding influence into foreign institutions. By folding it into the State Department, the administration stripped away one of the globalist deep state’s most potent funding arms (Heritage Foundation, 2024).
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a brainchild of the post-2008 regulatory wave, had amassed sweeping power without accountability. It became both a regulatory hammer and a financial fortress for left-wing legal activism—funding lawsuits and channeling penalties into pet causes with no Congressional control (Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, 2020). Its closure was a constitutional correction.
To ensure these eliminations did not create a vacuum of chaos, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was established. Its mission is antithetical to traditional government expansion: to dismantle, not to build. Through hiring freezes, the defunding of redundant offices, and the audit of bureaucratic overlap, DOGE has already unraveled many of the sinews of bureaucratic permanence. Programs like AmeriCorps, long a quiet recruiting ground for progressive political operatives masked as volunteers, were cut by 85%. The U.S. Institute of Peace—ironically a haven for permanent-war strategists and foreign policy globalists—was subjected to a full leadership overhaul (National Review, 2024; White House, 2025). These institutions weren’t just ineffective—they were funding centers and influence networks for ideologues who saw America’s sovereignty as an obstacle to their global ambitions.
Strategically, the redirection of funds hit ideological nodes within the bureaucracy. Hundreds of millions in federal education grants, NOAA climate initiatives, and EPA “environmental justice” programs were canceled. These grants, often hidden under noble-sounding missions, were actually political slush funds—disguised as science, public health, or justice (RealClearPolicy, 2025). The NIH and CDC, politicized during the COVID era, were restructured to limit mission creep and to eliminate program areas that had become tools of political narrative management rather than objective science.
The dismantling of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) mandates was another major strike. ESG rules had become a regulatory Trojan horse for embedding left-wing ideology into corporate governance. It empowered unelected bureaucrats to distort markets and penalize companies for not embracing progressive causes. ESG wasn’t about responsible investing—it was a new power center for centralized planning. Its termination liberated capital markets and restored the investor's right to pursue returns over ideology (Daily Signal, 2025).
This agenda isn’t austerity—it’s accountability. It’s about restoring the Jeffersonian ideal of a “wise and frugal government” that does only what is necessary to protect liberty, not what is politically fashionable or ideologically expedient (Jefferson, 1801).
The reform effort also exposed the fiscal infrastructure that enabled bureaucratic corruption. For the first time in U.S. history, every Treasury transaction was made fully auditable. This unprecedented transparency revealed massive improper payments in Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, which were promptly halted. Government credit card abuse was investigated. Surplus property was sold. Multi-decade leases for empty federal buildings were canceled. These weren’t just inefficiencies—they were networks of quiet corruption, sustained by the inertia of unaccountable management (OMB, 2025).
The Justice Department was no exception. Its Civil Rights Division, long a fiefdom for legal activism, was overhauled. Staff were replaced, priorities reset, and constitutional equality restored. The FBI, under new leadership, was restructured to prioritize national loyalty over partisan warfare. Long-ignored internal leaks and political abuse are now actively prosecuted—reversing years of deep-state protectionism (The Federalist, 2024; National Review, 2023).
DEI programs, another major ideological investment vehicle, were terminated across all federal agencies. These programs were not simply about diversity—they served as political litmus tests, employment filters, and justification for perpetual bureaucracy. Their removal restores a true meritocracy to government service and ends the practice of ideological hiring (Washington Examiner, 2025).
Gender ideology, once imposed through policy memos and administrative coercion, was rolled back. Biological reality was reaffirmed, and federally funded institutions that ignored science or promoted anti-American ideology—particularly within universities—lost their funding (Washington Times, 2025; Free Beacon, 2025). These institutions had become not only cultural battlefields, but also deep-state satellites—sustained by taxpayer money, and shielded by bureaucratic inertia.
Immigration reform followed the same logic: ending the incentives that allowed open-border activists to use federal policy to undermine sovereignty. Programs that funneled money to sanctuary cities, legal defense for illegal entrants, and politically motivated NGOs were ended. These were more than humanitarian efforts—they were budgetary weapons used to destabilize the rule of law and flood the system with crisis (Washington Times, 2025).
And finally, tax policy was returned to its rightful role—as a means of protecting liberty, not controlling behavior. The 2017 tax cuts were made permanent, shielding working families and small businesses from the threat of future confiscation (Americans for Tax Reform, 2025). Government spending was no longer seen as an entitlement for bureaucrats, but a duty owed to the people who earned it.
Each of these reforms—fiscal, cultural, administrative, and legal—was part of the same mission: to dismantle the deep state’s infrastructure, eliminate its power centers, and return government to its constitutional roots. As Jefferson wrote, “When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
This revolution is not about personalities or party—it is about principle. The deep state had become a shadow government, funded through complex channels and empowered by institutional permanence. But the American people voted for change, and they got it. A government that was once a fortress for globalist interests and ideological coercion is being torn down—brick by bureaucratic brick—and replaced with one that is once again of the people, by the people, for the people.
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