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• HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER SEES CAREER BUREAUCRATS AS THE SWAMP AND PUTS A TARGET ON THEM - January 26, 2017

• House Majority Leader Calls ‘Career Bureaucrats’ the Washington Swamp in Op-Ed

  By Kellie Lunney, Government Executive

  The House majority leader on Wednesday put a face on the Washington, D.C., swamp the Trump administration has vowed to drain: the career federal workforce.

  “Washington’s many agencies, bureaus and departments propagate rules that weigh down businesses, destroy jobs, and limit American freedoms,” wrote Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., in a Jan. 25 op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal. “Career bureaucrats who never face the voters wield punishing authority with little to no accountability. If there’s a swamp in Washington, this is it.”

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