The President can only fire appointees.
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Wrong.
He is the CEO of the executive branch, he can fire every single damned one of them who work for the executive branch.
He can dissolve every agency under the executive branch, and should.
Then, after the PURGE , replace with agencies that are actually needed.
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ALL federal agencies should be relocated to areas over which they regulate. Agriculture to the Midwest, Energy to Texas, HUD to Chicago etc. There is NO reason why Maryland and Virginia should have an unfair number of highly paid federal workers who never visit their charges. The additional advantage would be so few highly “educated” leftists would want to live in flyover country with the rubes.
“...he can fire every single damned one of them...”
I hope you are correct. However, I’ve heard that government unions have language that can protect most of them. No government should allow its employee to be in a union. They are not only lined up against management, but against the tax-payer.
Why do you suppose government workers are compensated so much more than the comparable worker in the private sector???