Estimated to be only 1200-1400 positions in fedgov, which are appointed by potus.
Upon taking office, new Presidents usually replace many but not all of them.
Below those are tens of thousands of permanent, mostly DC based, upper and mid level career bureaucrats.
Most of those are left leaning; bigger, more powerful and costly government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_positions_filled_by_presidential_appointment_with_Senate_confirmationAs we have seen, resistence to change is a very big change. For example, once a topic like "Climate Change" takes form, regulations and decisions will start, in many different departments. Career positions will be created, for various aspects.
Ask: Does your local schol district, city, county, special district, state government spend money and have practices which treat "climate change" as if it is a real thing?
Ditto that on various topics, do it for decades, and you arriive at the Deep State, that spends more resources "protecting" every possible angle, from skin hue, to ethniciities, to sexual variants, etc.
Some days you would think the purpose of government, was to "protect" everybody and everything, but you.
In procurement, preferences for "minority owned" and "woman owned" take hold. Governmentagencies don't stop at their own direct purchases, but apply thse regulations to any firm they sub-contract with.