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The Deep State Is Kind of Awesome | NYT Opinion

As America closes in on a major election, mistrust is brewing around the mysterious government entity that’s now denounced in scary-sounding terms — “the deep state” and “the swamp.” What do those words even mean? Who exactly do they describe? We went on a road trip to find out. As we met the Americans who are being dismissed as public enemies, we discovered that they are … us. They like Taylor Swift. They dance bachata. They go to bed at night watching “Star Trek” reruns. They go to work and do their jobs: saving us from Armageddon. Sure, our tax dollars pay them, but as you’ll see in the video above, what a return on our investment we get! When we hear “deep state,” instead of recoiling, we should rally. We should think about the workers otherwise known as our public servants, the everyday superheroes who wake up ready to dedicate their careers and their lives to serving us. These are the Americans we employ. Even though their work is often invisible, it makes our lives better. But if Donald Trump is re-elected and enacts Schedule F, that could change. He would have the power to eviscerate the so-called deep state and replace our public servants with people who work for him, not us. In the video above, you’ll meet a few of our hard-working American public servants, and we hope you’ll agree that they’re not scary at all. In fact, they’re kind of awesome. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7n More from The New York Times Video: http://nytimes.com/video ---------- Whether it's reporting on conflicts abroad and political divisions at home, or covering the latest style trends and scientific developments, New York Times video journalists provide a revealing and unforgettable view of the world. It's all the news that's fit to watch.

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I will totally obliterate the Deep State I will fire Donald Trump is obsessed with the Deep State the Deep State deep State the Deep state is destroying our nation either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State and many Republicans are widening his paranoia these unelected bureaucrats ruining this country from a cabal of security agents to the sick political class that hates our country if elected Trump's vowed to gut the federal government reinstate the schedule F executive
order and quote fire Rogue bureaucrats but who are these bureaucrats and what makes them so dangerous we needed answers so we took a trip across America in 100 y take the exit in search of the people behind this threatening [Music] [Laughter] entity first stop Huntsville Alabama sure looks like some nefarious government activity happens around here you have reached your destination meet Scott Bellamy I am a mission manager in the planetary missions program office he drives a Nissan Titan 4x4 he
's loved Star Trek since he was a kid of course I have a favorite character it's either Captain Kirk or Mr Spock and he may have quite literally saved the planet from annihilation potenti you see Scott managed a mission called the double asteroid redirection test and back in 2022 his team used your tax dollars to pull off something kind of incredible you have an asteroid and you have a spacecraft and you fly the spacecraft into the asteroid and try to change the trajectory of that asteroid it's
like playing pool in space everybody was holding their breath you know this is the moment of truth did we hit it let see we got it and we have impact [Applause] they knocked an asteroid off its course proving something that had previously only been done in movies saving the world from an armagedon scenario potentially next we traveled deep into the swamp itself Washington DC you have arrived this is rodica Fox I am the assistant administrator for water at the Environmental Protection Agency she
loves Pilates making salads and watching the Taylor Swift eras Tour on TV with her family uh I think we're all pretty 1989 oh and she led an operation to make our drinking water lead free in 10 years that's the dream worried and angry about lead contamination residents of New York New Jersey are demanding bottled water and answers lead is a neurot toxin that can cause irreversible brain damage folks are drinking out of these pipes right now every single American child will soon be able to turn o
n that faucet and their moms and dads know that water they're drinking is clean when President Biden announced a nationwide plan to remove lead water pipes Rica's team made it happen yep that's right water utilities would be legally required to replace all remaining lead pipes 9 million in 10 years or less it's an expensive bet $50 billion but those benefits are truly Priceless cuz it's the well-being of this nation that's at stake you want to replace your own water pipes you got the skills to l
aunch an asteroid deflecting spacecraft no that's why your tax dollars pay experts like rodica and Scott important work like this is happening All Over America from helping 2 million victims of the opioid crisis to engineering major breakthroughs in nuclear fusion and helping make hearing aids affordable for 30 million people yep the Deep state is hard at work making America great just because we don't know about it doesn't make it suspicious you have arrived our final stop Chicago Illinois meet
Nancy alcanta I am the acting director of enforcement for the wage and hour division for the Midwest uh regional office for for the US Department of Labor I had to take a breath yes she still eats Lucky Charms for breakfast trains for marathons and loves Latin dancing K chaaa you name it I did it and she uses your tax dollars to get kids out of working in dangerous slaughter houses 13 14 15 year olds working on the kill floor cleaning body parts right animal carcasses they're working with Machi
nery such as skull Splitters bone splitters Nancy and her colleagues raided slaughter houses in several States and found more than a hundred children working illegally last year their employer Packer's sanitation was finded $1.5 million one of the largest child labor cases in American history kids would die kids would get limbs amputated I don't even want to imagine uh what would happen if no one did this job these guys work for you but Trump wants them working for him Trump wants to fire at lea
st thousands of these people that he calls pejoratively the Deep State schedule F would allow Trump to fire up to 50,000 of them and replace them with like-minded people sometimes it's really hard to to read the newspaper where you know you feel like we as public servants are being attacked now this doesn't mean that Americans can't have different ideas about how big the federal government should be after all there's no shortage of examples of real government overreach and overspend but Trump's
teaching us to expect the worst from people in government when the truth is they're actually some of our [Music] best

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