A little-noticed federal regulation was finalized last week that was a tacit admission by the Biden administration that the entrenched liberal bureaucracy in the federal government is real and must be protected at all costs.

Last week, the Office of Personnel Management, an executive branch agency that oversees the personnel that staff the federal government, finalized a rule that is aimed at preventing any future president or administration from reclassifying the thousands of bureaucrats who work in federal agencies to make them more accountable to the democratically elected president.