What a second Trump presidency could bring

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In the early years of Trump’s first administration, much of the government relied on senior careerists and holdover Obama appointees to carry out the sensitive responsibilities that would otherwise belong to the new president’s appointees. Project 2025 wants to change that by testing career bureaucrats on their impartiality in policy advice. “The desire to infiltrate political appointees improperly into the high career civil service has been widespread in every administration, whether Democrat or Republican,” Project 2025’s policy document says. “Democratic administrations, however, are typically more successful because they require the co-operation of careerists, who generally lean heavily to the left.”...