[kenmcg]

“Fauci is a Federal employee, so not sure that he could just be fired.”

He wouldn’t be fired outright, but he can and will be removed from the Covid task force.

[maggief]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2020/10/24/trump-new-executive-order-may-make-it-easier-to-fire-scientists-like-fauci/

Trump’s New Executive Order May Make It Easier To Fire Scientists like Fauci

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-creating-schedule-f-excepted-service/

Executive Order on Creating Schedule F In The Excepted Service
Issued on: October 21, 2020