‘A Very Large Earthquake’: How Trump Could Decimate the Civil Service

“…These days, though, Stier is increasingly preoccupied with what he sees as a fundamental threat to that work: former President Donald Trump’s sweeping proposal to convert thousands of career civil servants into political appointees if he wins a second term in the White House. That plan — which has won the support of powerful, Trump-aligned conservative think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and the America First Policy Institute — is modeled on an executive order from Trump’s first term that redesignated 20,000 civil servants in policy-related positions as “Schedule F” employees, thereby allowing them to be fired unilaterally by the president…”

The federal bureaucracy is a Democrat bureaucracy that protects and promotes Democrats. Everyone knows it. Trump has vowed to destroy it. Democrats hate the idea of Trump destroying it.