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Trump has a plan to reclassify 50,000 career bureaucrats as "Schedule F" political appointees.

by gman83 2y ago

mc32 2y ago
They should at least stack rank the rank and file and at least quintimate all the slackers after each election cycle, regardless of winner, like clockwork, stack rank and renew. There is too much accumulated putrid growth in many departments -but it hardly ever gets sorted out.
remarkEon 2y ago
That seems like a double edged sword. On the one hand, I'm sure every president would like a 50,000 man army to implement their preferred policies. On the other, how does one raise a 50,000 man army these days? This isn't Rome.
- consteval 2y ago
  It's detailed more in the heritage foundation's Project 2025. The idea is to have an academy for grooming and selecting those political appointees. Essentially, they would have to pledge their allegiance to conservative values (and the president) and pass exams about what they should/should not believe in order to work in the bureaus. This would include vowing to believing climate change isn't a problem. Of course, that's the short term "republican makes it into office" solution. Past that, to other presidents, I don't know. In my personal opinion, I think they're banking on never having to get there.
  - laverya 2y ago
    > Past that, to other presidents, I don't know. In my personal opinion, I think they're banking on never having to get there. I think their logic is basically "these people function ~identically to if they were democratic political appointees, so we might as well get the benefits of them being political appointees when we're in office". Whether that's actually accurate can be debated, but it's not just "let's not worry about ever losing ever again".
sickofparadox 2y ago
"Trump" does not have a plan to do that and he has repeatedly denounced Project 2025, even pressuring the Heritage Foundation to fire the guy that led the program. I hate the guy but you don't need to lie. https://www.semafor.com/article/07/05/2024/trump-disavows-project-2025 https://www.semafor.com/article/07/05/2024/trump-disavows-pr...

Trump has a plan to reclassify 50,000 career bureaucrats as "Schedule F" political appointees.

by gman83 2y ago

Trump has a plan to reclassify 50,000 career bureaucrats as "Schedule F" political appointees.

mc32 2y ago

They should at least stack rank the rank and file and at least quintimate all the slackers after each election cycle, regardless of winner, like clockwork, stack rank and renew. There is too much accumulated putrid growth in many departments -but it hardly ever gets sorted out.

remarkEon 2y ago

That seems like a double edged sword. On the one hand, I'm sure every president would like a 50,000 man army to implement their preferred policies. On the other, how does one raise a 50,000 man army these days? This isn't Rome.

consteval 2y ago
It's detailed more in the heritage foundation's Project 2025. The idea is to have an academy for grooming and selecting those political appointees. Essentially, they would have to pledge their allegiance to conservative values (and the president) and pass exams about what they should/should not believe in order to work in the bureaus. This would include vowing to believing climate change isn't a problem. Of course, that's the short term "republican makes it into office" solution. Past that, to other presidents, I don't know. In my personal opinion, I think they're banking on never having to get there.
- laverya 2y ago
  > Past that, to other presidents, I don't know. In my personal opinion, I think they're banking on never having to get there. I think their logic is basically "these people function ~identically to if they were democratic political appointees, so we might as well get the benefits of them being political appointees when we're in office". Whether that's actually accurate can be debated, but it's not just "let's not worry about ever losing ever again".

sickofparadox 2y ago

"Trump" does not have a plan to do that and he has repeatedly denounced Project 2025, even pressuring the Heritage Foundation to fire the guy that led the program. I hate the guy but you don't need to lie. https://www.semafor.com/article/07/05/2024/trump-disavows-project-2025 https://www.semafor.com/article/07/05/2024/trump-disavows-pr...