In a sweeping move to restore integrity within the federal bureaucracy, President Donald J. Trump signed a series of executive orders from the Oval Office Thursday that strip security clearances from two high-profile anti-Trump officials—former CISA Director Chris Krebs and former DHS staffer Miles Taylor—while ordering formal investigations into their conduct during his first term.

The actions, memorialized in a Presidential Memorandum, mark yet another step in Trump’s post-reelection effort to clean house and hold accountable the so-called “deep state” figures who used their positions to subvert his administration from within.

White House staff secretary Will Scharf clarified the scope of the memorandum, which “addresses [Krebs'] access to existing government clearances,” and goes further to direct the Department of Justice and other relevant agencies to examine Krebs’ actions at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

“This is a man who weaponized his position against free speech in the election context, in the context of COVID-19,” Scharf said, referring to Krebs’ controversial role in downplaying election integrity concerns during the contested 2020 election. “This is another, similar Presidential Memorandum to the one you just signed. It addresses his access to government existing clearances he might have, and further instructs your Department of Justice, other aspects of your government, to investigate some of the malign acts that he participated in while he was still head of CISA.”

Krebs infamously declared the 2020 election “the most secure in American history,” despite widespread evidence of irregularities, ballot anomalies, and questionable last-minute rule changes in battleground states. His public dismissal of such concerns drew harsh criticism from conservatives and ultimately led to his firing by President Trump.

“I don’t know that I met him. I’m sure I met him, but I didn’t know him, and he came out right after the election — which was a rigged election, a badly rigged election. We did phenomenally in that election,” President Trump said of Krebs.

A White House fact sheet revealed that all federal agencies have been instructed to immediately revoke any active security clearance held by Krebs. The memo goes even further, calling for the suspension of clearances linked to individuals or entities associated with him—including cybersecurity firm SentinelOne—pending a national interest review.

Another key target of the Trump administration’s executive action is former DHS official Miles Taylor, the infamous “Anonymous” author behind a 2018 New York Times op-ed in which a self-described “senior administration official” boasted about sabotaging the Trump agenda from within. Taylor’s identity was exposed in 2020.

The new directive orders the DOJ to investigate Taylor’s actions, as well as any government clearances granted to individuals at the University of Pennsylvania, where Taylor currently teaches. The review will determine whether these clearances “align with the national interest.”

President Trump minced no words when signing the order involving Taylor.

“I think he’s guilty of treason if you want to know the truth,” Trump said.

Taylor, after leaving the Trump administration, was welcomed by CNN as a political analyst—a move that drew widespread criticism from conservatives who viewed him as a turncoat and operative for the anti-Trump establishment.

The moves come as the Trump administration intensifies its efforts to expose systemic corruption in the federal government and bolster confidence in U.S. elections. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, speaking at a White House Cabinet meeting Thursday, revealed that U.S. intelligence has uncovered troubling vulnerabilities in America’s electronic voting infrastructure.

“We’ve got a long list of things that we’re investigating. We have the best of the best going after this. Election integrity being one of them,” Gabbard said. “We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast.”

As the Trump White House continues to shine a light on misconduct by entrenched bureaucrats, the president made it clear that accountability is not optional.