The US Fed.gov budget is full of literally thousands of such programs. Its why we are $21 Trillion in debt, its why America's 7 richest counties now surround Washington DC, and its why DC intelligence bureaucrats have such power, to the point they will publicly try to overthrow a President.
So as a side note - next time anyone advocates for TERM LIMITS, please do so FIRST for life-time, deep-state programs and bureaucrats, and only after that, for the public's only means of change - your elected officials.
(hat tip Victor Davis Hanson)
After Trump won, the super-confident Deep State had the power to either
stop, remove, or delegitimize Trump and remove him from the presidency....
Obama’s apparat quite imaginatively pulled out all the stops:
<><>implanting Obama holdover appointees all over the executive branch;
<><>filing lawsuits and judge shopping;
<><>organizing the Resistance;
<><>pursuing impeachment writs;
<><>warping the FISA courts;
<><>weaponizing the DOJ and FBI;
<><>attempting to disrupt the Electoral College;
<><>angling for enactment of the 25th Amendment or the emoluments clause; and,
<><> unleashing Hollywood celebrities, Silicon Valley, and many in Wall Street to suffocate the Trump presidency in its infancy.
All of it indicative of the Third World mentality the Halfrican brought to the presidency.
The scurrilous T/W tactic of using the power of govt against those who get in their way.