Absolutely right. A budget evaporating by the day will get their attention. Nothing else seems to.
Actually the person who has full Constitutional authority over them is Trump. DOJ is an executive agency and the SES’s and those with “excepted service” government ratings
serve at the chief executive’s pleasure.
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The primary common denominator of many of these agencies and positions is that they have national security and/or intelligence functions, such as the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of State, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Secret Service, and the NCIS. Attorney positions, Presidential Management Fellows, Presidential Innovation Fellows, and Foreign Service positions are examples of positions excepted across-the-board in all Federal agencies.
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(From wiki but it’s not too wrong here!)
So Trump has the legal constitutional right to fire them immediately. (Certainly pull their clearances & accesses!)
He is not doing this for I think the following reasons.
1. Their antics service his political needs. The more partisan (anti-Trump) they act the more politically powerful Trump becomes. It’s actually sweet! All their obstructionist acts have the opposite effect of what they want, they don’t weaken Trump they make him stronger. Trump knows this! (What’s sweet is they’re too stupid to see that!. Remember what Trump said in the campaign we are governed by the stupid!)
2. He doesn’t have a guaranteed 5-4 on the USSC yet. All his actions & I mean everything will end up in federal court. He is chipping away at the lower courts with his appointments but there are still too many anti-constitutional left wing judges out there (Still too easy to find one!) We need 1 or possibly 2 more USSC appointments. So please no more Alabama debacles!