Texas Senator Ted Cruz said the Donald Trump set to enter the White House on Monday is ostensibly "different" than the one who did so eight years ago, largely due to his cabinet picks.
Speaking to NewsNation's "The Hill Sunday," Cruz said Trump now has more experience and a better team to help him carry out his agenda. "I think the first term, there were some mistakes in Cabinet nominees and some nominees that he came to regret because they were people that were not fighting with him to accomplish his agenda," Cruz said.
He went on to argue that the current picks are "really strong" and have "much greater awareness of the challenges of the deep state, the challenges of embedded bureaucracies that in the first term resisted a lot of what he wanted to do."
Some of Trump's staunchest allies have been discussing the need to take on the "deep state," what they describe as a cadre of long-term officials controlling the agenda from the shadows.
Another Trump ally seeking to carry out the same agenda from Congress is Rep. James Comer, who recently said he will help Trump's nominee to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, to "disrupt the deep state."
"I want (Patel) to know that our committee will assist in any way possible to help him disrupt the Deep State," Comer said in a recent interview.
Patel has been a vocal critic of the FBI. He said in different interviews that, should Trump return to office, he would "come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections."
Moreover, Trump said during the campaign that Patel's book, Government Gangsters, is a "blueprint" for his administration. The book calls for "comprehensive housecleaning" of the FBI, which includes firing "the top ranks." It is unclear whether Patel has the votes to be confirmed, but Patel has promised to rebrand the FBI headquarters as a "museum of the deep state."
Comer said he is eager to help Patel in his endeavor, suggesting the committee he leads could give him information about officials who "kept coming up in our depositions and interviews of people that were obstructing and covering up." He was referring to the GOP's unsuccessful attempt to impeach Biden, which he led.
"[Patel] and I are fixing to meet because with respect to him, they need to hold some people accountable for a cover up," Comer said. "It's a big deal to know that the president of the United States is on the take, and yet you do nothing. And I would go further, obstructed our investigation and coordinated with the media to write things that just weren't true."
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