Deconstruct the 'deep state.' Don't become it

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 read more from this series, click here.

The “deep state” exists not as an organized conspiracy against the elected government of the day but as a portfolio of casual bureaucratic groupings that advance their own interests over those of the nation.