Of course they do. Just off the top of my head, here are a few: McConnell, Schumer, Pelosi, Schiff, Obama, Biden, Harris, any number of Soros funded prosecutors. Installing "elected officials" is the top of the coup pyramid --- installing elected officials is the goal. And, they're now doing it with regularity.
Once they are elected (installed), they're there until they bleep up and need to be removed and replaced.
Go ahead and replace them. The problem with the deep state is that it is far deeper than a few figureheads. It is multiple layers of bureaucrats that will advance unauthorized policy, slow walk or stymie policy that is approved, and burden it with regulations, permits, and other nonsense that will essentially make sure either nothing gets done (if they don't want it to) or something gets fast tracked whether we want it or not.
They are the multiple layers of bureaucracy, the permitting agencies, the ones demanding yet another EIS because the last one conducted at the behest of a different agency which overlaps didn't include a raptor study (on prairie). It's how the Keystone XL pipeline got killed, how the Dakota Access Pipeline (.5 million BOPD) was stalled for over a year.
Infrastructure is only one thing they can kill or boost, but the various agencies involved in the process can stop progress dead.
It isn't just a few elected officials, although they are the poster children, it is the outrageous mass of 2.3 to 2.4 million Federal non postal non military employees. While not all are actively "deep state", they self perpetuate their agency, department, and jobs by making sure that you are required to get it across their desks first, before anything gets done--and that's just one level, there are State and Local bureaucracies to navigate as well, often with conflicting rules and overlapping areas of interest.
Google AI estimates the total number at some 23 million government personnel. While not all are engaged in making or enforcing policy, that's a lot more than the 535 elected to Congress.
