How Election Day impacts Trump’s deep state agenda and almost a century of government

Trump has said he would tap the billionare Elon Musk as the hatchet man to lead his proposed government commission on ‘efficiency’ in government.

If elected, Donald Trump has vowed to demolish what he calls the “deep state” – a conspiratorial term for the American federal bureaucracy. A second Trump administration, running mate JD Vance has said, should fire thousands of civil servants and replace them with MAGA loyalists.