The whole article is a lie. It is so slanted you need to lie on your side to read it. Appears to be written by a federal employees union steward or even higher up the food chain. Whatever the position nothing but a lackey.
Trump’s executive order was so that he could actually fire the drones that weren’t doing their jobs. It of course had nothing to do with creating a spoils system for “his people”. I sure didn’t see any of “his people” being very loyal to him and still don’t. With friends like his, who needs enemies?
I have posted in these pages before that my late Father was a gooberment employee for about 40 years. I can remember when the union came to town. He was required to provide the union steward an office space so he put him in a cyclone fenced space used to keep the chainsaws and such. It fit the requirement of secure and dedicated.
From that point of the union invasion it became a much less place to work.
As a result, they transferred him from the field office to a paper pusher indoor job in Denver. He went to work for the private sector just a few months later requiring yet another move. The essobees killed him and my two older brothers before their time.