President Trump Opens the Valve to Drain the Swamp With a New Executive Order

Stacey Lennox-Opinion : Oct 26, 2020
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Bringing new perspectives and new skills into an ossified bureaucracy is an excellent idea. It will also make resistance to the will of the voters a risky proposition. At the end of the day, civil servants work for us, and it is high time they were reminded of that.

[PJMedia.com] President Trump has signed an executive order that removes civil-service protections from certain positions within federal government agencies. There has been much whining and gnashing of teeth, but voters should be thrilled. Making policymakers in the deep state "at-will" employees, who are easier to dismiss if they attempt to obstruct the duly elected president's agenda, is a good thing. Not being bound to hire on a career progression ladder will also allow agencies to bring in new people with new ideas. This will be true whether or not Donald Trump is president. (Image: Flickr-White House)

The need to reduce protections within the civil service became apparent when training based on critical race theory was banned from the government. Within two weeks of the order, whistleblowers started to report that their scheduled critical race training would proceed—in direct violation of the order.

Many who made their careers in private industry were stunned. Any department head or manager who operates in direct defiance of an order from a CEO would not remain on the team for long. Yet when this happened in federal agencies, no one was apparently held accountable.

Office of Management and Budget Director Ross Vought explained why on Glenn Beck's radio show... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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