The Senior Executive Service (SES) lead America’s workforce. As the keystone of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, the SES was established to “...ensure that the executive management of the Government of the United States is responsive to the needs, policies, and goals of the Nation and otherwise is of the highest quality.” These leaders possess well-honed executive skills and share a broad perspective on government and a public service commitment that is grounded in the Constitution.
Members of the SES serve in the key positions just below the top Presidential appointees. SES members are the major link between these appointees and the rest of the Federal workforce. They operate and oversee nearly every government activity in approximately 75 Federal agencies.
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) manages the overall Federal executive personnel program, providing the day-to-day oversight and assistance to agencies as they develop, select, and manage their Federal executives.
This was when you got a bunch of UNELECTED Bureaucrats pulling the strings behind the scenes...IMO
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/
If we speak of the NWO-Global Governance policy, we see how the Deep State has had the advantage of this contractual laws clause for SES staff. We see it in Executive branch with WH staff; example Alex Vindmann (Trump 1st impeachment trial), State Dept; Victoria Nuland (now in hot water over Russia/Ukraine skirmish), WH staff Fiona Hill, also first impeachment trial.
I'm fairly certain these are SES hold-over employees/staff and see how they stonewalled and subverted Trump's policies. All three should be tried for subversion. (Definition; the undermining of the power and authority of an established system or institution.
Subversion as a criminal act; https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-115