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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a stark warning over the weekend, declaring that entrenched elements within the federal government — commonly referred to as the “deep state” — are actively resisting the Trump administration’s reform agenda.
Speaking at the Turning Point USA summit on Saturday night, Gabbard laid out the extent to which internal resistance remains alive and well in Washington, D.C., particularly inside federal agencies tasked with intelligence, law enforcement, and policy enforcement.
“I feel this frustration every single day. We are pushing hard — know that they are pushing hard back,” she told the crowd. “We see it. We’re documenting it. And soon, you will too.”
According to Gabbard, upcoming declassifications will reveal the inner workings of a bureaucratic framework designed under the Biden-Harris administration to label constitutionally protected speech and behavior as “domestic extremism.”
One memo, she claimed, designated individuals as potential extremists for expressing skepticism about COVID-19 mandates or objecting to school vaccine policies — stances many Americans have taken on principle.
“People who were expressing anti-authority views — that’s literally what the memo says,” Gabbard revealed. “This was used as justification to surveil, label, and even censor law-abiding Americans.”
She emphasized that the memo was weaponized to coerce technology companies into suppressing online dissent.
“Some platforms were willing, some were not,” she explained. “But under pressure from the federal government, many chose to silence Americans under the guise of public safety.”
Gabbard did not specify a release date for the declassified material but said it was part of a broader transparency initiative aimed at dismantling what she called an “unelected bureaucracy.”
The comments arrive during an intense period of legal and political pressure on the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Just last week, a federal court blocked DHS immigration enforcement actions in seven California counties, triggering sharp rebukes from administration officials.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem vowed to appeal the ruling and accused the judiciary of politicizing its role.
“The judicial branch has lost its sense of dignity,” she said on Sunday. “These decisions are being made not on the basis of law, but based on political preferences.”
Noem argued that the administration’s immigration strategy was well within constitutional and legal boundaries, stating, “We are enforcing the law as written — nothing more, nothing less.”
Gabbard’s remarks also resonate with growing frustration among conservative voters, many of whom feel the pace of reform has lagged due to internal obstruction.
“Why aren’t things going faster?” she said, echoing a common sentiment. “It’s because the resistance isn’t just outside. It’s embedded.”
Trump’s administration is reportedly preparing a series of legal and administrative actions to root out deep state influence, ranging from personnel changes to expanded oversight over intelligence agencies.
As pressure builds, the coming declassifications could offer the American public unprecedented insight into how speech, dissent, and ideology have been handled by federal bureaucrats — and whether core constitutional rights were violated under the banner of national security.
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