… back seven years, eight years, back to 2017, when you have Steve Bannon in 2016, 2015, during President Trump's first campaign for president, talking about deconstructing the administrative state. Right. They [Trump administration] want to design a Federal government that essentially resembles something more out of the 19th century rather than the 21st century. Right. So the abolition of all of these federal agencies, these agencies and entities within the federal government that are designed to serve the American people, social safety net programs, … (04:33–04:59)
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Asserts that the Trump administration aims to revert the federal government to a 19th-century model.
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