In a second Trump administration, Donald Trump has made clear that he wants to finish what he started in 2020 and cut the civil service massively, replacing experts and longtime public servants with loyalists and sycophants...
In particular, John McEntee, Stephen Miller, Jeffrey Clark, Richard Grenell, and Kash Patel have all hitched their wagon to Trump—either financially or by doubling down on election denialism—and are reportedly poised for highly influential appointments where they could implement and enforce Trump’s planned “purge” of the “deep state.”
Trump has promised that he would reimpose Schedule F in a second term, and conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation are preparing to assist through a plan called Project 2025. Led by individuals with close ties to Donald Trump and his administration, Project 2025 hopes to engage in an unprecedented reshaping of the executive branch.
Leaders in Congress and the executive branch have taken note of Project 2025 and Trump’s plan to reimpose Schedule F. The Office of Personnel Management recently finalized a rule enhancing the merit system and making it harder for a future president to enact Schedule F by protecting career civil servants from being reclassified and fired at will. CREW strongly supports this rule and remains committed to helping defend it in court if its legality is challenged by those, like Stephen Miller’s group America First Legal, who hope to upend the civil service.
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https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/who-would-help-trump-carry-out-his-promised-purge-of-the-deep-state/
