Zinke: One-third of Interior employees not loyal to Trump ... via Drudge.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Monday that nearly one-third of employees at his department are not loyal to him and President Donald Trump, adding that he is working to change the department's regulatory culture to be more business friendly.
Zinke, a former Navy SEAL, said he knew when he took over the 70,000-employee department in March that, "I got 30 percent of the crew that's not loyal to the flag."
In a speech to an oil industry group, Zinke compared Interior to a pirate ship that captures "a prized ship at sea and only the captain and the first mate row over" to finish the mission.
"We do have good people" at Interior, he said, "but the direction has to be clear and you've got to hold people accountable."
Zinke's comments echo complaints by some White House allies that a permanent, "deep state" in Washington has sabotaged Trump's efforts to remake the government.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Monday that nearly one-third of employees at his department are not loyal to him and President Donald Trump, adding that he is working to change the department's regulatory culture to be more business friendly.
Zinke, a former Navy SEAL, said he knew when he took over the 70,000-employee department in March that, "I got 30 percent of the crew that's not loyal to the flag."
In a speech to an oil industry group, Zinke compared Interior to a pirate ship that captures "a prized ship at sea and only the captain and the first mate row over" to finish the mission.
"We do have good people" at Interior, he said, "but the direction has to be clear and you've got to hold people accountable."
Zinke's comments echo complaints by some White House allies that a permanent, "deep state" in Washington has sabotaged Trump's efforts to remake the government.
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4 comments:
The deep staters are easy to identify. They're the ones who are kneeling.
I'm surprised it's only a third.
Well, he's ballparking. Probably conservatively. It's not like they took a poll or even if they had whether accurate responses would be likely.
They have all internalized the gospel that the ends justify the means, i.e. they are all not only lawless but fiercely convinced that their lawlessness is the height of virtue. If they cannot be fired they must be shunted into make work projects. Better the real work be done be a skeleton crew of conservatives or at least of honest bureaucrats than by these unrepentant marxists or bolsheviks, same difference. The problem is that conservative Republicans never have and STILL don't understand what they are up against.
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