This country is now officially the Banana Republic of North America. The real problem in gutting civil servants and replacing them with Trump Loyalists is a huge national security issue. When Trump finally leaves office he could have informants everywhere while he maintains his Russian connection. No department will be safe, including the USA military and it's partners, especially its research partners.
By Nicole Ogrysko
President Donald Trump (click here) signed a new executive order that will reclassify a portion of the career federal workforce, giving agency heads the ability to hire and fire them at will under a new class in the excepted service.
The order, which the White House released Wednesday evening, creates a new schedule in the excepted service known as “Schedule F.”
It gives agency heads the authority to reclassify certain confidential, policy-making, determining or advocating positions from the career civil service to the excepted service under this new schedule....