President Donald Trump and his administration are growing increasingly eager in their efforts to remake American government .
In the last week alone, top officials at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Federal Reserve and the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) have been shown the door amid clashes with Trump and other top officials.
They’re the kinds of stories that can seem opaque and unimportant to casual politics watchers. How many people care about the fate of a bureaucrat they’ve never heard of from one of these acronymic agencies?
It can seem especially overwhelming after all the headlines earlier this year about Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) layoffs of scores of government officials.
But increasingly, these firings matter. They suggest