{"id":2215786,"date":"2024-04-08T16:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T20:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-biden-white-house-tries-to-protect-the-deep-state\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T16:43:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T20:43:48","slug":"the-biden-white-house-tries-to-protect-the-deep-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-biden-white-house-tries-to-protect-the-deep-state\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biden administration aims to safeguard government continuity"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-biden-white-house-tries-to-protect-the-deep-state%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2215786&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u200dhighlighted \u200dtext describes a recently finalized federal \u200dregulation by the Biden administration aimed at\u2062 protecting the liberal bureaucracy within the federal government \u2063from potential \u2062reclassification efforts to enhance\u200c presidential accountability. This move follows the withdrawal of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-pick-and-choose-biden-faces-backlash-for-publicizing-covid-vaccine-statuses-while-ordering-abortion-privacy\/\" title=\"\u2018They Pick And Choose\u2019: Biden Faces Backlash For Publicizing COVID Vaccine Statuses While Ordering Abortion Privacy\">previous executive order<\/a> by President Biden\u2064 targeting federal employee reclassification, highlighting concerns over bureaucratic autonomy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A little-noticed federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/regulation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>regulation<\/a> was finalized last week that was a tacit admission by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/biden-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Biden administration<\/a> that the entrenched liberal bureaucracy in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bureaucracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>federal government<\/a> is real and must be protected at all costs.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Office of Personnel Management, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-slammed-while-blaming-others-for-end-of-eviction-moratorium-is-your-memory-as-bad-as-joes\/\" title=\"Pelosi Slammed While Blaming Others For End Of Eviction Moratorium: \u2018Is Your Memory As Bad As Joe\u2019s?\u2019\">executive branch agency<\/a> that oversees the personnel that staff the federal government, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/04\/04\/biden-moves-to-defang-political-assaults-on-federal-workforce-00150446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>finalized a rule<\/a> that is aimed at preventing any future president or administration from reclassifying the thousands of bureaucrats who work in federal agencies to make them more accountable to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/niger-heads-to-polls-in-search-of-first-democratic-transition\/\" title=\"Niger heads to polls in search of first democratic transition\">democratically elected president<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The regulation was drafted as a response to an executive order that was signed in the last few months of the Trump administration that would have reclassified thousands of federal employees who work in policy positions as political appointees and thus make them accountable to the president.<\/p>\n<p>The executive order, which would have created a new category of federal employment called Schedule F, would have empowered the president to take control of a federal bureaucracy that is resistant to the directives and policy goals of a conservative president.<\/p>\n<p>Biden withdrew the order shortly after taking office in January 2021 as Democrats decried the plan as an attack on the \u201cexpertise\u201d of the federal workforce and tried to label any talk of an unaccountable deep state bureaucracy as a conspiracy theory.<\/p>\n<p>But the new regulation is a tacit admission that the bureaucracy is unaccountable to the elected officials in the executive branch. Federal workforce protections have made it nearly impossible to fire incompetent or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/do-any-republicans-really-think-desantis-wont-get-impeached-or-framed-by-the-fbi\/\" title=\"Do Republicans believe DeSantis won't face impeachment or FBI framing?\">insubordinate federal employees<\/a>. That may work for a Democratic president such as Biden, who finds all sorts of ideological and political allies in the ranks of the federal workforce, but for a Republican such as former President Donald Trump, it serves as a clear obstacle to the policymaking that the people voted for.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, while the Biden administration may try to forestall government accountability should Trump win the November election, Russ Vought, the former director of the Office of Management and Budget and the architect of Schedule F, tells me the regulation could be easily overcome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis expected move by the Biden administration to forestall accountability within the bureaucracy against poor performers merely reinforces what we already knew \u2014\u00a0Schedule F rests on a sound legal foundation, is going to succeed spectacularly, and the only chance to stop it is to install procedural roadblocks,\u201d Vought, now the president of the Center for Renewing America, told me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately these efforts don\u2019t change anything,\u201d he said. \u201cIn fact, there are many rules and regulations passed by this administration aimed to go after the American people that they can expect to kiss goodbye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In other words, as much as Biden and his operatives in the West Wing think they can protect their mindless army of zombie bureaucrats, the regulation served no purpose besides admitting to the entire nation that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-say-overhaul-needed-to-protect-fed-agencies-from-foreign-hacks\/\" title=\"Lawmakers Say Overhaul Needed to Protect Fed Agencies from Foreign Hacks\">executive branch agencies<\/a> are only accountable to a Democratic president.<\/p>\n<p>Once voters eject Biden from office in November, we can expect the new Trump administration to clear out that unaccountable bureaucracy and give the people the government and the policies that they voted for.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent federal regulation quietly approved last week signaled the Biden administration&#8217;s acknowledgment of the existence of a persistent liberal bureaucracy within the federal government. 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