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This new Trump executive order deserves to be front-page news—it's as bad or worse than his attempt to politicize IGs, for example.
Stated simply, Trump wants to fire thousands of apolitical civil servants & replace them with pliable political hacks.
1/ https://www.govexec.com/management/2020/10/stunning-executive-order-would-politicize-civil-service/169479/
Stated simply, Trump wants to fire thousands of apolitical civil servants & replace them with pliable political hacks.
1/ https://www.govexec.com/management/2020/10/stunning-executive-order-would-politicize-civil-service/169479/
The order requires every federal agency to identify all "positions of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character" & move them into a new "Schedule F" category, meaning they can be fired for political reasons.
2/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-creating-schedule-f-excepted-service/
2/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-creating-schedule-f-excepted-service/
If you're a civil servant in any of these positions, you could be fired & replaced with a political footsoldier:
* anything to do with any policy—not just regulations
* reporting to a political appointee
OR
* representing a gov't workers' union
This is many 1000s of people.
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* anything to do with any policy—not just regulations
* reporting to a political appointee
OR
* representing a gov't workers' union
This is many 1000s of people.
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Why initiate this now? Why not wait a few weeks—until after Trump is sworn in for a 2nd term, or at least re-elected?
In part because Stephen Miller has a "shock & awe" set of immigration orders & wants to purge the civil service without delay.
4/ https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21363270/stephen-miller-covid-trump-white-house-hatemonger
In part because Stephen Miller has a "shock & awe" set of immigration orders & wants to purge the civil service without delay.
4/ https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21363270/stephen-miller-covid-trump-white-house-hatemonger
Here's the tell: Every agency head must have their purge plan approved by the Director of @USOPM, who must then inform the Director of OMB &...the Director of the Domestic Policy Council, who has no jurisdiction over DOD, @StateDept, etc.
But they report to Stephen Miller.
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But they report to Stephen Miller.
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Miller has spent 4 years screaming at federal agencies to implement atrocious policies faster—family separations, Muslim bans, & much more.
Imagine what he & his ilk will do when they can fire literally anyone who stands in their way.
6/ https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/02/stephen-miller-green-card-immigration-1630406
Imagine what he & his ilk will do when they can fire literally anyone who stands in their way.
6/ https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/02/stephen-miller-green-card-immigration-1630406
And imagine who will be brought in to replace the apolitical civil servants who get fired!
We already know: Professional xenophobes in charge of immigration policy at DHS, for example.
7/ https://www.mediamatters.org/hill/anti-immigrant-hate-group-lobbying-director-now-senior-adviser-us-citizenship-and-immigration
We already know: Professional xenophobes in charge of immigration policy at DHS, for example.
7/ https://www.mediamatters.org/hill/anti-immigrant-hate-group-lobbying-director-now-senior-adviser-us-citizenship-and-immigration
And it's not just immigration policy that would be directed by layer upon layer of hand-picked ideologues.
It's the CDC. The EPA. Thousands of scientists throughout the federal government. Experts who have spent their lives serving the nation without political interference.
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It's the CDC. The EPA. Thousands of scientists throughout the federal government. Experts who have spent their lives serving the nation without political interference.
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So add one more thing to the ballot:
Whether you want to live in a country where career civil servants must do the president's bidding, even if that goes against their assessment of reality, their conscience, & their oath to defend the Constitution.
9/9
Whether you want to live in a country where career civil servants must do the president's bidding, even if that goes against their assessment of reality, their conscience, & their oath to defend the Constitution.
9/9
