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| The Biden Burrowers: Exposing a Potential Deep State Threat Against the Second Trump Administration | |
| 2025-08-17 | |
| [DailySignal] In 2018, The New York Times published an op-ed written by a self-described official in President Donald Trump’s administration who confessed to be “working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.” Deep state actors arguably helped launch the first impeachment against Trump, and intelligence agencies pressured Big Tech to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Trump’s second term has proved far more aggressive than his first, and it stands to reason that deep state actors within the administration may attempt to undermine him yet again. While presidents appoint more than 3,000 people for political positions, the federal government directly employs roughly 2.3 million people, most of whom serve in purportedly nonpolitical, career positions. The Daily Signal has worked to expose former President Joe Biden’s political appointees who took these “career” positions in the federal bureaucracy and remain in the government under Trump. These “burrowers” may represent a deep state threat to the president’s ability to fulfill the promises he made to the American people. An April poll found that 75% of Washington, D.C.-based federal employees making $75,000 or more per year who voted for Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris in November said they would not follow a lawful Trump order if they considered it bad policy. Furthermore, a February Foundation for Government Accountability study found that Democrat employees outnumber Republican employees by a 2-to-1 margin across federal agencies, and 84% of federal employee’s political contributions went to Harris in the 2024 election. While some “burrowers” may faithfully work for the U.S. government under any president, this poll suggests that the new administration likely faces a deep state threat, and The Daily Signal’s coverage aims to expose it before it becomes a problem. The Daily Signal’s eight-part series on the Biden burrowers highlights the many Biden political appointees who burrowed into the bureaucracy.
Lucian Sikorskyj, a former adviser to then-Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., appears to still be associate administrator for materials and safety at the Federal Aviation Administration. Kamala Harris’ Lawyer and Anti-Kavanaugh Strategist Samantha Goldstein, currently associate deputy general counsel in the Department of Defense, previously called Trump “unfit to hold office.” She worked as special counsel for then-Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., in 2018, specifically advising her on the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Harris engaged in extremely aggressive tactics against Kavanaugh. The Environmental Justice Adviser Andrea Delgado-Fink, a former “environmental justice” adviser to Biden, remains in the Trump administration as deputy regional forester at the Forest Service in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. A Biden Campaign Lawyer Sarah Scheinman, who appears to still be serving as an attorney-adviser in the Justice Department’s antitrust division, previously worked on the Biden campaign’s legal team in the 2020 presidential election. Biden appointed her as associate general counsel at the Office of Management and Budget in September 2021, and she burrowed in in 2022. Taking the Buyout When Jeff Baran, a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, failed to secure Senate support to stay in his job, he found a “career” appointment in the bureaucracy and remained long enough to take the Trump administration’s buyout offer. Eric Holder’s Protege Tina Thomas, currently an assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., wrote on her LinkedIn profile that she “served as a strategic adviser and counselor to the Hon. Eric H. Holder,” Barack Obama’s attorney general. Holder, notorious for championing the Black Lives Matter movement and for getting held in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over documents related to the Fast & Furious scandal, also launched redistricting efforts aimed at helping Democrats win elections. Thomas advised him on those redistricting efforts. An Immigration Holdover The final name on this list, Jeff Rezmovic, does not count as a burrower, though Biden did nominate him for a political position and he continues to work in a career role in the Trump administration. | |
| Posted by:NoMoreBS |
| #5 The Deep State has been |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-08-17 14:58 |
| #4 A KBG agent has been running Russia for years. The Deep State has been running........ |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2025-08-17 09:23 |
| #3 Any of the DOGE guys could find all of them with some code they made rating a hotdog at the Costco food court over lunch. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2025-08-17 08:42 |
| #2 An April poll found that 75% of Washington, D.C.-based federal employees making $75,000 or more per year who voted for Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris in November said they would not follow a lawful Trump order if they considered it bad policy. Watch the court. They're starting to adhere to the Constitution as written. Can Article I, Congress, in fact, operate Article II, the executive? It's a fundamental question whether the Civil Service Act is nothing more than a 'gentleman's agreement' rather than law if it interferes with the Executive effectively carrying out its powers under Article II. Congress' fundamental power is solely the power of the purse. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-08-17 07:38 |
| #1 Make it a team sport to out them. Seems several are already playing that on the internet. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-08-17 07:33 |