The Deep State Strikes Back

September 25, 2025 / Bill Wilson /

The battle lines inside America’s health bureaucracy are drawn. Over 1,000 CDC and HHS workers signed a letter demanding the ouster of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he fired CDC Director Susan Monarez and began rolling back vaccine policies. To them, Kennedy represents disruption. To many Americans, he represents reform. The letter is less about science than it is about entrenched bureaucrats protecting their power. Those in public health policy are fighting to keep a system that rewards compliance and punishes dissent. This is the deep state flexing its muscle, using insider outrage as a weapon against someone threatening the order that has enriched and empowered them for decades.

The health deep state runs very deep. HHS, CDC, FDA, and NIH employ more than 100,000 people, most of whom are unelected career staff. That continuity gives stability, but it also builds resistance to change, nepotism, and industry incest. Add to this the “revolving door” between industry and government, corporate donations to agencies like the CDC Foundation, and the FDA’s dependency on industry fees, and you get a deep state ecosystem. The system has its own survival instincts. It can outlast administrations, override reformers, and neutralize whistleblowers. It’s not one conspiracy, it’s a dense web of relationships and money flows that keeps power concentrated in the same hands year after year.

The money explains everything. Big Pharma spends more than $700 million a year lobbying Congress—more than oil, defense, and tech combined. It pours another $2.9 billion annually into FDA “user fees,” funding the very office tasked with approving its products. Beyond Washington, pharmaceutical companies spend over $30 billion a year on marketing, including $6 billion in direct-to-consumer advertising. That is why every evening news broadcast and magazine break is saturated with “ask your doctor” ads. The entirety of these efforts is about convincing the public that pills and injections are the only solutions to health. It’s an advertising machine as powerful as any political campaign. And where else can a product be sold where half the commercial time is taken by enumerating side effects, including death, as disclaimers?

This closed loop is reinforced by the revolving door. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner, joined Pfizer’s board just months after leaving office. He is not alone—this pattern repeats across agencies. Regulators become executives; executives become regulators. Add to that industry-funded research grants at NIH and corporate donors at CDC, and you have incestuous ties that keep everyone fed while the public, living in fear of whatever ails them, foots the bill. The deep state is fighting to keep its position of using fear and miracle-drug promises to keep people as unhealthy, returning customers, while destroying reformers like Kennedy who want sanity in the system. 2 Timothy 1:7 says, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” We all need to remember this.

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