In particular, they’re terrified Trump will impose an executive order known as Schedule F, which would give him the power to hire and fire tens of thousands of bureaucrats who are in “policy-determining or policy-advocating positions.
And, second, because Trump doesn’t necessarily have to fire all 50,000—the mere threat that he could fire them will concentrate minds among otherwise hostile bureaucrats clutching their gold-plated benefits and pensions.
In a very satisfying headline, CNN is reporting a widespread “Feeling of Dread” among the millions-strong deep state—er, federal bureaucracy—that Donald Trump will fire them.
Put them together, and the Constitution says whatever pretty laws Congress passes to shield bureaucrats from voters, Trump can fire roughly 2.9 million of them.
Jackson, like Trump, was a populist up against near-universal opposition among the elite and the federal workforce.
Estimates range between tens of thousands up to 50,000—a solid start to draining the swamp, particularly given policy-advocating bureaucrats are the mother ship of deep state resistance.
A 1935 case (Humphrey’s Executor) says he can fire anybody in a so-called executive agency, which is nearly 97% of federal workers.
First, the Left—and the deep state—will deploy lawfare on a mass scale to shield the bureaucrats who feed them grant money to riot.
Now, going by Trump 1.0, the bureaucrats will fight with everything they’ve got, using a raft of civil service privileges imposed over a century.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/11/16/trump-can-fire-2-9-million-federal-workers/
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