It’s probably safe to say that unless they were a serious Washington insider, most Americans had never heard the names of Center for Disease Control Director Susan Monarez and Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.

Until, that is, now.

Both Ms. Monarez and Ms. Cook are now in the media’s headlines because both have been fired by President Donald Trump. On the surface, the two have nothing in common. The CDC and the Federal Reserve are two considerably different institutions, with one, as its name indicates, focused on disease control and the physical health of Americans, while the other is all about the economy and American finances.

But in fact - not that you would know this from the liberal media - the CDC and the Federal Reserve do in fact have something very much in common. Both institutions are filled with federal government employees whose first loyalty is to left-leaning politics, the federal government and its bureaucracy - not to the elected President of the United States of the moment. Most particularly does this apply to President Trump, he the decidedly “Outsider” president who was merely elected by the American people. Not to mention - oh the horror! - Trump is a Republican and, worse, someone who never spent a professional day in Washington until elected President. 

The larger question here is: Where is the media coverage of the left-leaning behemoth that is the federal bureaucracy?  Where are the Watergate-Woodward-and -Bernstein style investigations that plumb the depth of the oh-so-quiet political waters in Washington that quietly hum along in concrete mausoleum-style buildings that fill the Washington skyline? Here the thousands that run the Agriculture Department and there another cluster that runs the Education Department while over at the foot of Capital Hill is the Department of Labor’s Frances Perkins building, the latter named for liberal icon Franklin Roosevelt’s own Secretary of Labor who was also the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet.

It is very safe to say that these cavernous buildings are not filled with Trump supporters. Or, in the way back, Reagan or Bush supporters.

The hard fact here is that the liberal media loves the worker bees of the federal bureaucracy because, like the liberal media itself, the federal bureaucracy is filled with like-minded liberals.

But suddenly, this very last week, the media has seen fit to discuss this fact. Here are a couple sample headlines:

From The New York Times: 

Trump Moves to Strip More Federal Workers of Union Protections

The pre-Labor Day order included NASA, the National Weather Service and the agency that oversees Voice of America.

And over there in Newsweek: 

Trump Expands Push To Scrap Federal Workers' Union Deals

The horrified Newsweek story reports: 

“President Donald Trump has widened his effort to dismantle federal labor agreements, signing a new executive order on Thursday that adds several agencies to the growing list of departments where collective bargaining rights are being suspended. 

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If implemented by the agencies, union covered federal workers would lose the protections typically guaranteed under collective bargaining agreements, such as access to neutral arbitration for workplace disputes and official time for union representatives to carry out negotiations and casework 

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The latest order applies to a range of agencies, including NASA, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the National Weather Service and the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service within NOAA, the Bureau of Reclamation's hydropower program, and the Patent and Trademark Office's commissioner of patents office.

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‘President Trump is taking action to ensure that agencies vital to national security can execute their missions without delay and protect the American people,’ the White House said in a statement. ‘The President needs a responsive and accountable civil service to protect our national security.’

In short, the elected President of the United States - not the unelected federal bureaucrats who fill those concrete mega-boxes,-  has the audacity to think that he, not they, runs the country. Per the votes in a free election of the American people.

The question here seems all too simple. Where has the media been in carrying out the kind of micro-coverage of the federal, unionized bureaucracy that is routinely applied to a losing football team?

From federal Department to federal Department, unknown, decidedly anonymous federal bureaucrats, their political loyalties lying quite decidedly left, are running the bureaucracies of the nation’s capital. And unless the President-this one or any other - challenges their authority, they grind on. And take serious offense if so challenged by the elected President.

Which brings us back to the sudden media coverage of the Center for Disease Control’s Director Susan Monarez and Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. Up until dispatched by the elected President Trump, they toiled along virtually anonymously, bringing their left-leaning politics to the federal positions they hold. Regardless of the fact that Trump was the one elected and as such had every right to expect that his policies would be executed by the federal government of which he was now the elected chief executive.

The all too obvious result? The liberal media swoops in to make both Monarez and Cook heroes. Painting them both as political Davids taking on that monstrous, terrifying Goliath President Trump. And in the case of Monarez, taking on HHS Secretary RFK Jr.

Whatever else is to come, it is safe to say Americans can expect more voluminous media coverage of this fight, all of it tilted left to lionize these two particular targets of Trump’s battle with the Washington bureaucracy.

Buckle in.