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It is not impossible, but it is very, very difficult given the employee protections that are in place. Unless there is a serious felony-level crime, I doubt that someone would be fired.

I do know that the only way you can lose a federal pension is to commit treason. Otherwise, you can do anything including murder and not lose your pension.

We need to reform the federal personnel system. The permanent bureaucracy was meant to replace the spoils system and to create a professional cadre of non-partisan bureaucrats to have a smooth functioning government.

Approved on January 16, 1883, the Pendleton Act established a merit-based system of selecting government officials and supervising their work. Following the assassination of President James A. Garfield by a disgruntled job seeker, Congress passed the Pendleton Act in January of 1883.

Since then, the bureaucracy has emerged as the fourth branch of government, powerful and unelected. Federal employees have better benefits and greater job security than the private sector.