President Donald Trump looks on as he exits Air Force One on his arrival at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, January 31, 2026. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
For years, Donald Trump and his MAGA followers railed against the so-called "deep state" within the government that was working to prevent his political goals. Now, according to a new analysis from MS NOW, the president is the one creating his own deep state within the government by heavily staffing agencies with loyalists.
In a piece published Wednesday, MS NOW's Zeeshan Aleem argued that the administration was in the process of "Trumpifying" the federal workforce. He characterized this as the second phase of Trump's larger plan to create a "MAGA state," following his mass layoffs earlier in his second term. This plan, to staff the government top to bottom with loyal followers who would rubber-stamp his every whim, was a major proposal contained in Project 2025.
Aleem cited a recent report from the Washington Post, which detailed how the administration is now working to bring in a "wave of new federal employees who will unthinkingly obey the president’s political directives," as opposed to the traditional bureaucrats Trump fired last year, who were only concerned with "providing nonpartisan expertise." Stephen Miller, Trump's controversial far-right senior advisor, is reportedly overseeing this process and "ensuring that new hires are aligned with Trump’s agenda."
"That’s a clear sign that the Trump administration has real ambition to change the way the federal bureaucracy works," Aleem wrote. "Miller is one of the most Machiavellian figures in the Trump administration and one of its most vocal ideologues in favor of authoritarian and nativist governance. Miller surely approves of a new immigration services job posting titled 'Homeland Defender,' which, according to the Post, asks applicants to be ready to 'protect your homeland and defend your culture.'"
Aleem also highlighted comments from Scott Kupor, the head of the Office of Personnel Management, who pledged to make the civil service workforce younger and established a "Tech Force" program to work with companies like OpenAI and Meta to create a pathway to private sector jobs for employees who work for a time in the federal government. The reporter argued that those plans are merely a cover to "import brash young tech bros with the kind of 'move fast and break things' ethos that DOGE used to take a wrecking ball to vital social services."
These efforts to reshape the federal workforce, he warned, could long outlast Trump's presidency.
"Put all these things together, and a clear agenda to morph the civil service into a political instrument of Trump comes into view," Aleem concluded. "Historically, the federal workforce is a corps of nonpartisan employees who use their expertise to advise on and execute the policies of the federal government. Trump wants to turn it into an army of reactionary yes-men. Even after he leaves office, many of these MAGA state hires are likely to remain, and the government will be worse off because of it."
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