A recent report revealed that leftist federal bureaucrats are planning to defy the Trump administration and ignore the president’s orders. A newly released poll from Scott Rasmussen’s Napolitan Institute found unsurprisingly that Republican government employees are eager to do Trump’s bidding while Democratic bureaucrats will plan to ignore the administration.
The survey encompassed the category of “Federal Government Managers,” polling “federal employees living in the National Capitol Region and earning at least $75,000 annually.” Reportedly, this would encompass mid- to senior-level employees. This would reflect employees who have power over policy decisions and the capability to stand in Trump’s way.
The report discovered that “If President[-elect Donald] Trump gave them a legal order which they thought was bad policy, nearly two-thirds (64%)” of “Federal Government Managers” who voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris “would ignore the order and do what they thought was best.” Furthermore, the poll found that only 17% of Harris supporting career bureaucrats would follow orders from Trump.
Moreover, it was discovered that 89% of Republican federal government managers would dedicate their political energy to supporting the Trump administration over the next four years. On the flip, side 73% of Democratic managers asserted they would use their energy to oppose President Trump. Energy was defined as “voting, campaigning, and political donations; it would likely also include lobbying efforts and attending protests.”
Regardless of the opposition that lies before him in the bloated bureaucracy of the federal government, Trump has been busy signing hundreds of executive orders since taking office last Monday. Among the most prominent orders were the sweeping pardons for the nearly 1,500 January 6 defendants, the move to end birthright citizenship, and efforts to end DEI policies in the federal government.
The American Tribune previously reported on backlash to Trump’s DEI order, where Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) urged federal employees to defy the order. Durbin argued that “diversity is America’s strength” and that DEI policies should be safeguarded. The Illinois Democrat also asserted that the “Trump administration sees it just the opposite.”
Trump’s DEI Executive Order states, “Longstanding Federal civil-rights laws protect individual Americans from discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. These civil-rights protections serve as a bedrock supporting equality of opportunity for all Americans. As President, I have a solemn duty to ensure that these laws are enforced for the benefit of all Americans.”
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It continues, “Yet today, roughly 60 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, critical and influential institutions of American society, including the Federal Government, major corporations, financial institutions, the medical industry, large commercial airlines, law enforcement agencies, and institutions of higher education have adopted and actively use dangerous, demeaning, and immoral race- and sex-based preferences under the guise of so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) or “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility” (DEIA) that can violate the civil-rights laws of this Nation.”
The order then says, “Illegal DEI and DEIA policies not only violate the text and spirit of our longstanding Federal civil-rights laws, they also undermine our national unity, as they deny, discredit, and undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system. Hardworking Americans who deserve a shot at the American Dream should not be stigmatized, demeaned, or shut out of opportunities because of their race or sex.”