'Unprecedented': Trump team reportedly beginning ‘hostile takeover’ of government

President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team have begun orchestrating what is being described as a “hostile takeover” of the federal government from his Mar-a-Lago golf resort, according to a new report.

While the incoming president and his transition team continue to build out his next administration with unorthodox Cabinet nominations that have stunned Capitol Hill, they are also skirting many traditional rules meant to facilitate a seamless transfer of power, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

“Instead, the president-elect, who has pledged to fire thousands of civil servants and slash billions of dollars in spending, has so far almost fully cut out the government agencies his predecessors have relied on to take charge of the federal government,” according to the report.

Trump’s “unprecedented approach” includes refusing to collaborate with the General Services Administration, which makes about $7 million available for the presidential transition process. He has also engaged in calls with foreign heads of state without “the State Department, its secure lines and its official interpreters,” the Post noted.

Additionally, the publication added that Trump has relied on non-traditional avenues to vet his potential appointees without allowing the FBI to run its own inquiry.

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“For Trump, who campaigned on radically reshaping the federal government by moving entire departments out of Washington, closing others and replacing scores of civil servants with political loyalists, fulfillment of that vision begins with a privately run transition from Palm Beach and nearby offices,” according to the report.

It added that Trump’s “abiding distrust and resentment of federal agencies,” is driving his unusual transition method.

“The American people rendered their verdict by putting him back in the White House,” Mike Davis, president of the Article III Project, told the Post. “He should not trust the politicized and weaponized intelligence and law enforcement agencies that hobbled his presidency the first time. It’s a hostile takeover on behalf of the American people.”

If Congressional Republicans give in to Trump's recent demand, yet another norm could be broken, according to the report — the rarely-used recess appointment process, which could help pave the way for his nominations to take office.