Article originally appeared on www.westernjournal.com.
Draining the Washington swamp wasn’t a four-year job, and a four-year interregnum between Trump administrations allowed the unelected bureaucracy in the District of Columbia to retrench itself.
Thus, we shouldn’t be surprised that the deep state is resisting President Donald Trump yet again. This time, however, they seem to have adopted a new tactic: “malicious compliance.”
In at least two instances so far, career bureaucrats have gone above and beyond to make the new administration look bad by taking unnecessary and spiteful steps in regard to executive orders that weren’t spelled out by those orders.
The first involved a move by the Air Force to pause a course on the Tuskegee Airmen, the first unit of black pilots in military history, who flew with extreme distinction during World War II.
The reason for the pause, according to Fox News? Officials say they only wanted to be in compliance with the new administration’s …
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