(Commentary, including reposted material)
Source articles (links, some with a paywall). No affiliation:
"Trump Has Big Plans for 2025, and He Doesn’t Care Whether You Think He’ll Win"
(Opinion) Article excerpts:
"The architects of one of the most radical of Trump’s proposals have described it as “the constitutional option.” It would provide for the wholesale politicization of the elite levels of the Civil Service through the creation of a new “Schedule F” classification, allowing the president to hire and fire at will thousands of government employees “in positions of a confidential, policy-determining, policymaking, or policy-advocating character.”..."
"..."...Max Stier, founding president and chief executive of the Partnership for Public Service — a nonpartisan nonprofit group committed to the revitalization of public service — argued in a phone interview that “the broad contours of the Trump proposal are profound. This is about our democracy. What is at risk is a government made up of professionals committed to the public good.”
To better understand the dangers posed by ending Civil Service protections and merit requirements, Stier suggested envisaging the country under a Trump administration, or a president with a similar program, in which the “I.R.S. agents, the F.B.I. agents and prosecutors were all there on the basis of their loyalty to the president.”..."
Another (source) article link, partially excerpted in this post's headline:
"Democrats propose legislation to block Trump's Schedule F plans"
👍 9/16/22 update: This critical legislation PASSED the House of Representatives -- with six Republicans joining --- on 9/15/22. A Senate-introduced bill under the same name must pass the Senate with 60 votes...: "House passes bill seeking to protect federal civil service employees from Trump"
More:
9/19/22 commentary/analysis article link: "Congress Blows Its Shot to Stop Trump’s ‘Deep State’ Revenge"
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