No. of Recommendations: 2
Yes, it is.
No it isn't. Everyone in the Executive branch serves at the pleasure of the President.
Yes, it is. The federal government operates under a Civil Service Act, where most federal employees are supposed to be hired and retained based on merit and not based on whoever won the last election:
Willfully disobeying instructions from the President is ground for termination. As many are finding out.
The rest are almost entirely protected by the Civil Service Act from being fired or replaced simply based on their political views or whether they support Democrats or Republicans (or MAGA or woke).
Loads of ways to send Deep Staters packing.
Again, we live in a country where Congress writes the laws and generally gets to decide what the government will do and how it will do it. And the law is that most federal positions are to be filled and retained by basis of merit, not affiliation with who one the last election in either party or policy.
One more time. This is not the system we have:
*When democrats win, they get to staff the government and run it as how they see fit.
*When democrats lose, they get to keep the people they have in place and run the government as they see fit.
We're not doing that anymore.
