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SharonClark

(10,323 posts)
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 09:45 AM 18 hrs ago

Trump plans to fire thousands of government workers -- but it won't be easy

Here’s how President-elect Donald Trump could use “Schedule F” to gut the civil service — and how he could be stopped.

By Jay Michaelson, author and journalist
One of the linchpins of Project 2025 — the collection of policy proposals that some in Trump world have now warmly embraced after spending six months claiming they had nothing to do with it — is the planned replacement of up to 50,000 career civil servants with political appointees loyal to President-elect Donald Trump. But it’s not an idea confined only to Project 2025: Trump’s own “Agenda 47” calls for an “executive order restoring the president’s authority to fire rogue bureaucrats,” and Trump himself said of civil servants, “They’re destroying this country. They’re crooked people, they’re dishonest people. They’re going to be held accountable.”


More at https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-fire-federal-workers-project-2025-schedule-f-rcna180393?cid=eml_mda_20241118&user_email=95d3878287e11d7327ccf871e1ee65a4613202f47c00e15603ce32732c551bef

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Trump plans to fire thousands of government workers -- but it won't be easy (Original Post) SharonClark 18 hrs ago OP
We have no data to support the idea anyone will stop Trump. Irish_Dem 18 hrs ago #1
Agree, if trump judicial appointees and Supeme Court fall in line. SharonClark 18 hrs ago #2
They will fall in line. Irish_Dem 18 hrs ago #4
Destroying the U.S. government using the lie that he is rooting out corruption Solly Mack 18 hrs ago #3
The most corrupt president in US history rooting out corruption. Irish_Dem 18 hrs ago #5
I know, right? Laughable if it wasn't just so damn scary and tragic. Solly Mack 18 hrs ago #6
Yes it is scary and one of the worst tragedies to befall the United States. Irish_Dem 18 hrs ago #7

Solly Mack

(92,711 posts)
3. Destroying the U.S. government using the lie that he is rooting out corruption
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 09:59 AM
18 hrs ago

and American idiots cheer.

Irish_Dem

(57,038 posts)
5. The most corrupt president in US history rooting out corruption.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 10:04 AM
18 hrs ago

A psychopath with unlimited power.

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