Since President Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office, his haphazard transformation of the national government has created an unprecedented level of bureaucratic chaos across numerous federal agencies — leaving Americans needlessly vulnerable to an assortment of threats.
Just a few examples:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, has implanted his erroneous anti-vaccine stance within key institutions meant to protect public health. Due in part to Kennedy’s removal of sound leadership at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and his stoking of anti-vaccine sentiment, the country is seeing its worst outbreaks in decades of measles, a disease easily preventable with childhood immunization.
In the ongoing war with Iran, Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have led an unprovoked and illegal military campaign with irrational brute force, leaving thousands dead in just seven weeks — including 13 U.S. service members.
After the public soured on Elon Musk’s DOGE ransacking of the government last year, Russell Vought, the director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget and an author of the notorious right-wing legislative playbook Project 2025, has taken up that mantle to lead a behind-the-scenes effort to purge the federal government’s workforce.