Trump Attempts One More Preelection Power Grab

 

 

"And Trump is using his executive-order pen to lock into place new hiring-and-firing practices for federal employees that will, if he is reelected, inevitably lead to a Trumpification of almost the entire civil service, since they will permit what are, in essence, political loyalty tests and purges for huge numbers of career officials. The executive order in effect strips much of the civil service work force of union protections, and if anyone is deemed to be a “poor performer”—read, non-loyalists—makes it far easier to fire them.

This really is banana republic territory. In fact, the change is so stunning in its implications, so destructive of the very concept of a professional, politically independent federal bureaucracy, that in most weeks it would have dominated the headlines and created huge pushback pressures. But this week, it became a reality that received almost no public attention."

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Trump Attempts One More Preelection Power Grab