Former Trump aide Steve Bannon is celebrating new reporting from Axios’ Jonathan Swan outlining Donald Trump’s plan to “radically reshape the federal government” if he is reelected in 2024. The report describes Trump’s blueprint to remove thousands of nonpartisan civil servant positions and replace them with far-right Trump devotees – an effort Bannon cheered for targeting “the heart of the beast” and going to “war with the administrative state.”
As detailed in the Axios story, the center of Trump’s plan is to immediately reimpose his “Schedule F” executive order if reelected. The order would place thousands of civil servant workers into a new employment category, allowing these positions to be fireable by the executive branch and stripping these workers of full employee protections. Trump plans to replace employees in the State Department and the intelligence community “as a matter of top priority.”
Excerpts from Trump’s speech released before his appearance at this weekend’s Turning Point USA Student Action summit included remarks touting Schedule F. And Trump stated during a South Carolina rally in March that he hopes to “pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the president of the United States.” […]
We may need a newer, better government for the 21st century, but it should not be the one that Trump wants, and should contain a way for equality to prevail, and that includes a health-system, not a system that puts people on the poor house just for going to the hospital for a few days.