Posted on 05/30/2025 10:14:13 AM PDT by Twotone
As the administration continues to remake the federal bureaucracy to President Trump’s liking, the Office of Personnel and Management has developed an intensive new training program for those aspiring to join the Senior Executive Service, the upper echelon of government employees.
Per an OPM memo, obtained first by RealClearPolitics, the syllabus includes course work grounded in the U.S. Constitution, “Founding ideals of our government,” and Trump’s own executive orders.
The development program requires 80 hours of video-based training and culminates in two days of in-person training in Washington, D.C. It will affect government employees across the administration and disparate agencies and go live this September. The stated goal: “Ensure that SES officials uphold the Constitution and the rule of law and effectively serve the American people.”
This is the latest effort in the ongoing campaign to crush what the White House sees as an unaccountable administrative state. Trump began slashing and burning his way through the agencies as soon as he returned to office, with a particular emphasis on the Senior Executive Service.
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Sounds appropriate.
Pass or Hang!
They take an oath to protect and preserve the constitution. One should not take oaths lightly.
I remember on my first job, I spent the first two weeks watching training videos.
Yes, a worthwhile education for these execs but the real problem is a complete lack of accountability in DC. Until that changes, nothing will change.
We should end the SES. It’s the root of the deep state.
After they take the course, fire them.
President Trump's team is quietly but very carefully laying the legal and administrative foundation to take very aggressive measures against a wide spectrum of undesirable and destructive segments of our society chief amount them rouge bureaucrats and illegal aliens.
A lot of it is NGOs, corporations, and even private individuals.
The entire SES and their combined staffs should have been fired on Day One.
Every last one of them.
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“rouge bureaucrats…”
They’re as bad as rogue bureaucrats.
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Worse actually :-).
FWIW, I did a spell check before posting
Is it pass/fail you get to update your resume or just meeting room lecture that will achieve nothing.
Grand idea!
I’ve read that the first year at Hillsdale College is an intense, deep-dive into the glory that is the Founding of the United States of America.
Perhaps this could also be mandatory. In fact, make them pay for Hillsdale out of their own pocket. THEN, they would have some skin in the game.
Good!
“Every last one of them”
Oh they could be allowed to re-apply for their jobs.
That would establish the real point: they’re employees, not royalty.
The Constitution that they are going to be familiarized with - and which they will then routinely ignore - mentions that no titles of nobility will be conferred. But that’s precisely what the SES is: titled nobility, unassailable, and usually protected by Sovereign Immunity.
There’s not a single person who fought the Revolution for such a group to be part of the government of the United States.
Will probably be the first time they actually learn about the constitution. Need the DOI as well.
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