‘Wildly disruptive’: What happened last time Trump moved a federal agency out of DC

As part of his campaign to reclaim the White House, Donald Trump made clear that in a second term in office, he’d move tens of thousands of federal jobs outside the “Washington swamp” and into “places filled with patriots who love America.”

“This,” Trump said in one campaign video, “is how I will shatter the deep state.”

The relocation of federal jobs outside Washington, DC, was something Trump embarked on near the end of his first term — shifting the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management about 2,000 miles west to Grand Junction, Colorado.