Pentagon officials are coordinating their response to Trump's orders to deploy active-duty troops domestically and fire large swaths of apolitical staffers. Defense officials told CNN that they are all preparing and planning for the worst-case scenario, but the reality is that they don't know how this will play out yet. Trump's election has raised questions inside the Pentagon about what would happen if the president issued an unlawful order, particularly if his political appointees inside the department don't push back. Troops are compelled by law to disobey unlawful orders, but the question is what happens then – do we see resignations from senior military leaders? Or would they view that as abandoning their people?
The bureaucracy lives in a world unto itself, believing they have the innate right to override elected officials despite the powers in question being designated to those elected officials. The only right answer is to obey them. It is not illegal for troops to be used to help secure the border, as the border is specifically designated as a federal responsibility. Using troops to carry out deportations would also not be domestic "law enforcement" as the article describes.
Any officials who are conspiring to do anything but carry out orders given by the president should be fired immediately. The American people are sick of overpaid, underworked bureaucrats pretending voters don't matter. Government officials are already looking to circumvent the possibility of being fired as well. After Trump issued Schedule F the first time, the Pentagon and other federal agencies were tasked with making lists of which employees would be moved into that category.
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