I’m thinking an across the board 10% cut in government and new hires (Obama’s people) are fired first, unless there’s some extraordinary exception (specific need for that person’s skills).
2000: Clinton turned his political appointees into Civil Servants, unprecedented. Now they have permanent status and Union rights. Bush was intimidated into letting it stand. New GOP pres. has to whack the bureaucracy hard and not wilt before the inevitable rat & media outrage.
The Klintonx </FReeperspeak> worked very hard in the 90's to politicize the Civil Service, setting up "change agent" rings to "improve" the Civil Service (get rid of the white guys who'd pulled the load since President Arthur's administration in an apolitical way) and reorient (corrupt) the C.S. to the Clintons' corrupt and politicized way of doing business.
Exhibit A: James Hansen. Exhibit B: Joe Wilson and wife Valerie Plame.
That all said, I didn't know the Clintons had put numbers of their partisans into the Civil Service by appointment.
The next GOP President needs to do a RIF in all agencies to make these people go away. Cruz's idea of abolishing the Departments of Education and Energy would RIF almost 100% partisan 'Rats.