independent agencies under direct presidential control. he wants to revive the practice of impounding funds, refusing to spend money congress as appropriated for programs the president doesn t like. he tends to strip employment protection from tens of thousands of career civil servants, making it easier to replace them if they are deemed obstacles to his agenda. again, they are not hiding any of their plainly authoritarian and paranoid goals here. russell to vote up, former trump official, just proudly and openly in classic bond villain fashion told the times quote, what we are trying to do is identify the pockets of independents and sees them. but it s not just the times. the economist magazine also had a deep dive into how team trump aims to revolutionize the structure of government itself. maga republicans believe that they will be able to enact their program only if they first defying the deep state by making tens of thousands of top civil servants sack-able.