Donald Trump promised to shake up Washington as president. But his controversial cabinet appointments and rollback of regulations have unsettled some federal workers.
Over 1,000 diplomats at the state department signed a 'memo of dissent' opposing Donald Trump's travel ban and multiple leaks from US intelligence and other federal agencies suggest the president's most dangerous opponents may be the very people who work for him.
How much of a revolt against President Trump is going on in the US government?
Harry Horton reports from Washington.
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In a month of radical and rapid change under Donald Trump's presidency, there's been plenty of protests on US streets.
But a quieter resistance lurks inside the walls of the federal government.
Some of America's two and a half million federal workers are digging their heels in defiance of their elected leaders.
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"I've never seen workers in the federal government who I know as colleagues and friends as anxious and concerned about the direction of the administration as I have now."
Peter Boice worked on environmental policies for the US government for 30 years, before retiring in June.
He says many federal workers are nervous about Donald Trump's administration.
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"You can't govern a nation or work with the world through the use of tweets. You need a well informed basis on which to make decisions. And that's what my colleagues and friends are really concerned about, that there will be a real pronounced direction of making these decisions based on… who knows what. There's an awful lot of anxiety."
When almost one thousand state department employees signed a memo opposing Donald Trump's controversial travel ban, the message from White House press secretary Sean Spicer was direct.
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"I think that they should either get with the program or they can go."
Embarrassing details of the inner workings of The White House and contents of the president's phone calls with foreign leaders have been leaked to the press - perhaps as an attempt to undermine Donald Trump.
The president insists his administration is working like a "fine tuned machine" and has promised to clamp down on the leaks.
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"We're looking at them very — very, very serious. I've gone to all of the folks in charge of the various agencies and we're — I've actually called the Justice Department to look into the leaks. Those are criminal leaks. They're put out by people either in agencies — I think you'll see it stopping because now we have our people in."
White House observers like Dr Lara Brown from George Washington University say leaking isn't new - but the current scale is unprecedented.
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SUPER: DR. LARA BROWN, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
"I think it is foolish to assume that the civil service has never fought back before. They have, they usually do. If you look back to Ronald Reagan's presidency they certainly did. They just took a longer time to do it and they usually did it a little more quietly."
Donald Trump is still to appoint thousands of managers in various government departments as he attempts to clamp down on resistance and steer the United States in a new direction.
But just over a month into his presidency, he might be starting to think that running a country is a lot more complicated than running a company.
Harry Horton, Washington.