Project 2025 leaders promised to be a "wrecking ball for the administrative state." How does dismantling government institutions serve conservative ideology?

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Paul Dans called Project 2025 "a clarion call to come to Washington," urging conservatives to "lay down their tools and step aside from their professional life." Russ Vought, who authored Project 2025's executive power chapter and now serves as OMB Director, said "The president Day One will be a wrecking ball for the administrative state." These statements reveal a specific governing approach: rather than reforming agencies to work better, the goal is to remove career civil servants and replace institutional expertise with ideologically aligned appointees. Schedule F (now called Schedule Policy/Career) would enable this by reclassifying up to 50,000 career positions as at-will employees.

Project 2025 leaders promised to be a "wrecking ball for the administrative state." How does dismantling government institutions serve conservative ideology?

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