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In reply to the discussion: As a retired Federal manager, let me warn you about something [View all]Betty Boom
(259 posts)Under the current system, it is extremely difficult and requires many many steps to termination. But Im sure that they have ways that they are planning to bypass that. I cant really say more than that because I dont want to reveal things that current federal employees have told me And I dont want to get too technical here, but there are different categories of employees Such as the senior executive service who can be reassigned at will, and thus could be marginalized and replaced with people who will do trumps will.
I do want to make something very clear, however The federal workforce is non-partisan. I worked for Democratic presidents and I worked for Republican presidents and my performance, and the things that I provided at the request of the White House and other political entities did not differ based on who was sitting in the White House. But I did operate under certain government regulations and long-standing policies. It is those regulations and policies that they will seek to get rid of and/or ignore. And it will be easier for them to do so, if the people at the top of agencies are in their pocket. If their loyalty is to Trump and not to the Constitution. Federal employees take an oath just as the military does