It’s a Scam! It’s a Purge! It’s a Scam *and* a Purge
How to think about Trump’s plans for the federal workforce
Before Donald Trump was inaugurated, there was extensive discussion of his known plans to convert a number of civil service jobs into presidential appointments, politicizing the higher levels of the federal bureaucracy. Since the inauguration, however, it has become clear that almost everyone greatly understated the threat. We’re now seeing clear efforts to politicize everything, to force every federal employee to act, in effect, as a MAGA operative.
