According to E&E News, government officials are panicking over the possibility of former President Donald Trump being re-elected.
Federal officials fear a second Trump administration would mean they could lose their jobs and put an end to the liberal policies they have implemented under President Joe Biden, E&E News reports. reportIf elected, Trump would Pledged The former president announced reforms that would allow the government to freely fire up to 50,000 civil servants. Select A worker who is incompetent, unnecessary or undermining his democratic mandate.
“The first Trump administration was really tough and we had a lot of staff departures,” a National Park Service official told E&E News. “Once there’s a change of administration, other staff will rethink their positions and move to the private sector. I don’t know what we’ll end up doing.” (Related: As Trump leads in polls, liberal groups back bill to further tighten bureaucracy)
Many of the civil servants who did not resign during Trump’s first term were deliberately trying to sabotage his policies internally. according to Officials worry that Trump will now seek to appoint a secretary who is aligned with his policies, such as Miles Taylor, who served as Homeland Security’s chief of staff from 2017 to 2019 and has pleaded guilty to such conduct.
“He’s going to appoint people who are smarter and more loyal to him,” a Park Service official said. “Now I think he can do a lot of damage.”
To fill large numbers of federal jobs, Trump reclassified them as Schedule F employees, allowing them to be fired at will. The Biden administration finalized rules in April to prevent their status from being changed involuntarily, but allies of the former president have ignored the rules, noting that the Trump administration could easily reverse them. according to To the New York Times.
Amid concerns that Trump’s plan may come to fruition, officials are working to make the Biden administration’s policies as difficult as possible to repeal, a senior Interior Department official told E&E News.
“We’re less concerned about who the Democratic nominee will be and more concerned about Trump winning and what that means,” they said. “From everyone’s perspective, it’s important to get as much done as possible, and we’re also trying to embed it in government programs.” [like environmental justice] That will help us survive the Trump administration.”
A bronze sign stands at the entrance to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters in Washington, DC on January 30, 2024. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)
With President Trump trailing Biden in the polls and Democrats struggling with an internal battle over whether Biden should be their nominee, conservatives are becoming increasingly optimistic that Trump can beat Biden in November’s presidential election.
“The mood is heavy and disbelief,” a longtime Interior Department official told E&E News. “We were hopeful that we wouldn’t suffer another term under the previous administration, but [is] “If they did, they would target employees they didn’t like, fabricate facts to justify the punishment they wanted, and undermine the good work we’re doing.”
Meanwhile, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees are also upset and angry, the head of the union that represents some of the agency’s employees told E&E News. “Many of our members lived through the utterly disastrous first Trump administration and the attempts to dismantle the EPA,” she said.
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