Tulsi Gabbard Reveals the Reality of the Deep State, More Declassification Coming [WATCH]

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Saturday that the so-called “deep state” remains embedded in the federal government and is actively working to slow down or block key initiatives from the Trump administration.

Speaking at the Turning Point USA summit, Gabbard said she and others in the administration are aware of this resistance and are working to expose and counter it.

Gabbard’s remarks come amid mounting legal challenges to the administration’s immigration enforcement strategy.

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Most recently, a federal court issued an injunction barring the Department of Homeland Security from conducting immigration stops and arrests in seven counties in California.

Gabbard acknowledged that the road ahead would be difficult.

“I feel this frustration every single day. We are pushing hard, know that they are pushing hard back,” Gabbard said Saturday night.

“And so I feel the same frustration that I see many of you expressing on X or in different platforms about, ‘Why aren’t things going faster, why aren’t we getting results more quickly?’”

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Gabbard described efforts within federal agencies to undermine administration policy and said documentation of this internal resistance will soon be made public.

Among the forthcoming disclosures is a memo created under the Biden-Haarris administration that outlines criteria for identifying “domestic violent extremists.”

According to Gabbard, the memo categorized individuals as potential extremists based on a range of constitutionally protected behaviors, including criticism of COVID-19 mandates and parental objections to school-administered vaccinations.

“People who were expressing anti-authority views. I could go on in this list of people, groups, thoughts, free speech, they were labeled as domestic violent extremists,” she said.

Gabbard further stated that this labeling was used as justification to pressure technology companies into censoring speech online.

“They used that label to go and then force these tech companies — some of them were willing, some unwilling — to censor Americans’ free speech in the name of going after domestic violent extremists,” she said.

She emphasized that exposing these tactics is necessary to prevent similar government overreach in the future.

Gabbard did not provide a date for when the declassified material would be released but said it would be part of a broader effort to bring transparency to previous federal operations.

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“These are documents we will be declassifying very soon.”

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Separately on Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem addressed the recent court order restricting immigration enforcement actions in California.

Speaking to reporters, Noem said the Trump administration plans to appeal the ruling, which she described as misguided.

“It’s wrong,” Noem said. “There is no question that the administration is acting within the authority granted to us under federal law, and we will continue to enforce those laws as written.”

Noem also said the judicial branch has “lost its sense of dignity” in issuing a series of nationwide injunctions that she says are designed to slow the administration’s lawful actions.

“These orders are politically motivated and not grounded in the Constitution,” she said.

The Trump administration has made immigration enforcement and national security key priorities.

Officials maintain that recent legal obstacles reflect resistance from within the federal system — a system, they argue, still influenced by personnel and policy frameworks carried over from the previous administration.

The Department of Homeland Security has not released further details regarding the scope of the appeal in the California case but indicated that additional legal steps are being prepared.