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> No, Tech Force positions are not political appointments. Participants are hired as federal employees based on their technical qualifications and serve in non-
by nozzlegear 11mo ago
> No, Tech Force positions are not political appointments. Participants are hired as federal employees based on their technical qualifications and serve in non-partisan roles focused on technology implementation.
Will you be forced to set a politically biased out-of-office message that blames the Other Side when you're inevitably furloughed during the next funding crisis?
- martythemaniak 11mo agoNo one will force you do to such a thing, because no one who will not enthusiastically do this on their own accord will be hired.
- ivape 11mo agolol. This is not even a parody.
- curt15 11mo agoThey might as well be political appointments after Trump v Slaughter is decided since the unitary executive maximalists would swallow all for-cause job termination protections that have defined the professional civil service.
- jshier 11mo agoGiven the current administration's desire for unmitigated power, and SCOTUS' inclination to give it to them, there's really no such thing as a non-partisan role anymore. When you can be fired at any moment for any action the regime deems disloyal, you can't be nonpartisan.