Trump just quietly passed an executive order that could destroy a future Biden administration
Donald Trump’s latest executive order could give him the power to mount a scorched-earth campaign which would cripple a future Biden administration.
In the event the incumbent president loses his re-election bid, this order could give him largely unfettered authority to fire experts like Dr Anthony Fauci while leaving behind a corps of embedded loyalists to undermine his successor, according to federal employment law experts.
The order, which the White House released late Wednesday evening, would strip civil service protections from a broad swath of career civil servants if it is decided that they are in “confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating positions” — a description previously reserved for the political appointees who come and go with each change in administration. It does that by creating a new category for such positions that do not turn over from administration to administration and reclassifying them as part of that category. The Office of Personnel Management — essentially the executive branch’s human resources department — has been charged with implementing the order by publishing a “preliminary” list of positions to be moved into the new category on what could President Donald Trump’s last full day in office: January 19, 2021.
Creating the new category — known as “Schedule F” — and moving current civil servants into it could allow a lame-duck President Trump to cripple his successor’s administration by firing any career federal employees who’ve been included on the list. It also could allow Trump administration officials to skirt prohibitions against “burrowing in” — the heavily restricted practice of converting political appointees (known as “Schedule C” employees) into career civil servants — by hiring them under the new category for positions which would not end with Trump’s term. Another provision orders agencies to take steps to prohibit removing “Schedule F” appointees from their jobs on the grounds of “political affiliation,” which could potentially prevent a future administration from firing unqualified appointees because of their association with President Trump.
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Biden will be the leader of a government staffed entirely with Trump loyalists he can't replace; that'll be enough to cripple and paralyze the presidency into total collapse so that Biden won't be able to do anything we find objectionable (or, really, anything at all) and Senator Tom Cotton will be able to easily sweep into the White House in 2024 as Americans express frustration their tax refunds aren't getting processed, their Social Security checks are coming late, no basic government functions are occurring ...
Trump is playing 4D Chess with brass knuckles against a fading old man who hasn't yet mastered Checkers.
