The US Civil Service is the repository of the Deep State. Not all Federal employees are Deep State operatives, not by a long shot.. But the rules of the civil service make it possible for many officials to burrow in, and be largely exempt from being fired even for sometimes great malfeasance of office, as the appeals can go on for years. There is supposed to be a schedule of employment over which the administration in power at the time may appoint their own, and they are supposed to serve at the pleasure of the President, but in effect, those serving under this schedule often get themselves shifted into the regular civil service classification and thus secure their retention between administrations. This is a glaring defect that has to be corrected in such manner that the separate schedule ALWAYS remains at the pleasure of whoever the current President may be. Democrats have always taken full advantage of this option, but as a regular thing, Republican administrations tend to not carry out the necessary housecleaning.
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.