If you're ever up for listening in on what your local Deep State is up to, may I recommend one of my favorite eateries in #Boston: the cafe in the JFK fed. building. Decent, reasonably-priced food with a nice view and plenty of space to relax while waiting for #immigrationcourt 
1/ Two VA managers are having a lunch meeting nearby, talking through how to deliver faster/better services to a 94-year-old veteran & review implementation of a new process.
A USCIS officer is having a quick salad before another round of immigration interviews. In + out in 10
A USCIS officer is having a quick salad before another round of immigration interviews. In + out in 10
2/ Friends, this is your actual "Deep State."
Career public servants who take pride in keeping their agencies on mission and making the best use of tax dollars doing it, no matter the President or policies. Dedication, commitment, and institutional knowledge. We can't lose them.
Career public servants who take pride in keeping their agencies on mission and making the best use of tax dollars doing it, no matter the President or policies. Dedication, commitment, and institutional knowledge. We can't lose them.
3/ Career federal employees trend conservative but, like the rest of us, many of them have (and are certainly entitled to) opinions about Trump. But they aren't conspiring against him, and really couldn't even if they wanted to.
4/ It can't be easy to be told (as USCIS officers specifically have been) that your agency is specifically no longer in the business of "customer service," and that it's time to drop the simple courtesies that define professional public-facing service.
5/ It has to be demoralizing to know that the struggling agency whose mission you believe in and are proud to carry out every day has to tolerate a cabal of the President's country-club buddies who just to want to try their hand at federal management
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6/ But these essential public servants keep their heads down, their inboxes managed, & the complex business of their agencies humming through the latest chaos in the White House.
Give them a thought the next time you hear Hannity or whoever blathering on about the "Deep State."
Give them a thought the next time you hear Hannity or whoever blathering on about the "Deep State."
7/ And please everyone just stop using this rock-stupid phrase.
Suggested alternative:
"Competent career technocrats who don't want to watch the entire federal government run off the rails and explode in a giant fireball."
I know, could be snappier. Will work on that.
Suggested alternative:
"Competent career technocrats who don't want to watch the entire federal government run off the rails and explode in a giant fireball."
I know, could be snappier. Will work on that.
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