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Trump vows to shake up Justice Department, purge civil service

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Mosinee, Wisconsin | Former US president Donald Trump has vowed to vastly reshape the federal bureaucracy in a wide-ranging, often unfocused speech at a rally in Wisconsin on Saturday (Sunday AEST).

He pledged to ultimately eliminate the Department of Education, redirect the efforts of the Justice Department, and fire civil servants charged with carrying out government policies he disagreed with.

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