> Anyone that thinks the Trump administration is going to lead the charge on reforming these agencies is foolhardy.
I think they were saying that the public (and tech community especially) will demand the reforms because they view Trump as nefarious; not that Trump & co will freely relinquish them.
Governments rely on information to function.
Once an administration comes into power and sees the amount of information provided to them through these means, there's no way they would relinquish it in any meaningful sense.