Well, she starts now.

Hey, good morning. It's Saturday, February the 8th. It's day 19 of Donald Trump's second term and efforts are intensifying to fulfill the president's promise to dismantle the so-called deep state across all levels of government.

Many Republican lawmakers have celebrated the administration's actions, calling them

efforts to reduce wasteful government spending.

But the ongoing purge is also in furtherance of Trump's main purpose for his return

to power, which is retribution.

In fact, just yesterday, he reiterated his intent to fire

some of the FBI agents who investigated January 6th cases. It's just a preview of what's to come.

But first, Trump's unprecedented attempt to drastically reduce the size of the federal government

has hit some roadblocks for now. A federal judge has paused the administration's

deferred resignation offer from taking effect until at least Monday afternoon when a hearing will be held.

This offer is a sweeping attempt to convince federal workers to voluntarily leave their posts

as Republicans forge ahead with their plans to shrink the federal workforce.

The offer was presented to more than 2 million federal workers.

A senior administration official told NBC News that more than 60,000 federal workers have accepted it as of Thursday shortly before the court issued the pause.

But meanwhile, the administration has taken a number of other bold steps in its attempt to upend every facet of government. Consider these recent changes.

Earlier in the week, more than 1,000 EPA employees were informed that they could be fired immediately,

which a spokesperson said would part of the agency's effort to create a more effective and efficient federal government.

Additionally, it also placed 168 workers on administrative leave after it announced plans to shudder the agency's office of environmental justice and external civil rights,

which worked to address how pollution and other environmental factors have affected communities

of color, as well as low-income and rural areas. Even more ambitious, however, is President Trump

and Elon Musk's attempt to completely gut the United States Agency for International Development,

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