Throughout this week, the Washington Examiner’s Restoring America project will feature its latest series titled “Reforming the Deep State: Reining in the Federal Bureaucracy.” We invited some of the best policy minds in the conservative movement to speak to the issues of what waste, fraud, abuse, and unaccountability exist throughout the federal government and what still needs to be done. To learn more about the series, click here.

Waste, fraud, and abuse

The enduring partisan power of permanent Washington

The president of the United States is often hailed as the most powerful figure on the planet. Yet lurking just below the surface of every administration lies an unseen, but extraordinarily potent web of unelected officials and entrenched agencies, immune to the ballot box and enduring beyond any changes in leadership. Some call it the administrative state, others the deep state, or simply permanent Washington. Whatever the name, this shadow government wields formidable power.