R.o Get a feeling From what The first week of Donald Trump I did to the federal government, spoke to the people who work in it. “I have been with the government for more than 10 years, I lived through the first Trump administration, and nothing compared to this,” says one of the treasury employees. Some workers are busy cleaning their personal social media for the elements that can be explained as unwanted. Others do their CV, expecting that they will soon search for a new work. Those who plan to stay expect their functions to get worse, as colleagues flee or not be replaced. Both civilian employees say: Everyone is “in an absolute panic.”
As a candidate, Mr. Trump promised to “break the deep state.” Since he took office, it has become more clearly intended. In a barrage of executive orders, Mr. Trump confirmed that he could do what he loves for the federal government. He claims, “alone and exclusive authority” on the executive branch, to include employment, launch and all spending decisions. In fact, Mr. Trump claims that he is not just a president, setting the labor laws enacted by the legislative body. He claims to be something closer to the king, or is able to withhold or redirect spending as he sees it appropriate.
On January 27, Mr. Trump has completely revealed what extent he intends to pay. He decided that all grants and loans provided by the federal government – with the surrender of social security, medical care, and some other selected groups – will be hung up the next day, although Congress has agreed to it. Eloise Pasachoff of Georgetown University Law Faculty of Law, says this is the clear rapist of the role of Congress under the first article of the constitution was “vast” and “really illegal.” The memorandum did not indicate any legal justification for freezing, on the evening of January 28, a temporary federal judge arrested him. The next day, the administration canceled its notes; What happens after that is unclear. Parallel freezing for all external aid created a similar chaos.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump has launched almost an external external force against federal bureaucracy – more than 2 million civilian employees who have already implemented federal policy. Dozens of senior employees, including senior immigration officials, the Ministry of Justice and other appointed prosecutors, have been released, who are appointed to their goals. These included more than dozens of general inspectors (International Energy Agency who achieve the efficiency of departments and error). In the event of the inspectors, the president is required under the law to give a 30 -day notice and a clear reason for justifying the shooting. He did not.
These decisions came above the freezing of full employment in most departments (military immigration authorities, as well as jobs related to social security and health care of the old warriors exempt). He also returned an unacceptable matter from his last term that allowed his administration to redesign any functional function function as a political function, thus removing the usual job protection and seizing anyone who wants him. He also pledged to close all functions of “diversity, fairness and integration”, known as “”Dia“In the government. To top it, prohibiting all work from the house.
The goal is transparent to get federal workers who do not like Mr. Trump to leave. On January 28, an email from the Personnel Management Office came out (OPM) Each federal employee provides “deferred resignation”. Basically, the conditions were: agree to leave this fiscal year and you can work from home until then. Touches – including instructions to respond with the word “to resignBy February 6 – he influenced Elon Musk, the billionaire president of the “government efficiency management” of Mr. Trump, or “Dodge“. since OPM Not actually a company Hr Department, is unlikely to resist the audit offer. Federal technology employees have reported that strangers and many novice employees in Mr. Musk companies entered into offices to control government He – she Systems and carrying out “code instructions reviews”.
Don Moinhan, from the College of Public Policy, says many in the White House will love.) It seems that the president does not have much interest in the idea that most government officials should be a non -party specialist whose experience is published to maintain the safety of the public, among other advantages. Under Mr. Trump’s plan, decisions related to employment and launch will be made by political appointed.
According to Max Stier, from the Public Service Partnership, a charity that improves the government, Trump “tearing the civil service” to re -create the “spoils system” of the government that lasted until the end of the nineteenth century. This was a model as the new presidents came and immediately distributed their jobs to their friends as a reward to support their election campaigns.
Will it succeed? “It seems unlikely.” Says Larry Jacobs, of Minnesota University. He says: “Mr. Trump’s orders, he says,” sweeps and breathlessly impressive in her institutional arrogance, “but he argues that many of what Mr. Trump is trying to do is likely to be retracted by the courts or Congress. He indicates that even after that Trump appointed new sympathetic members in his last term, the Supreme Court has often canceled. Congress has abandoned a lot of power to the presidency, but control of the federal portfolio is unlikely to be unlikely to be easily produced.
However, it may take years for the challenges of work on its way through the courts. The damage to the meantime can be large. Employees who find other jobs after pressing them will not necessarily return just because the court says that their dismissal was a mistake. The talented new talented people will not join. And with government lawyers with fears of shooting, all kinds of illegitimacy can prevail. Mr. Stier worries things like internal revenue service and the Ministry of Justice that is used to punish the enemies of Mr. Trump, without civil service lawyers.
Even the best results are not good. In the last management of Trump, the recruitment of the government has been freezed and distorted (see the graph). Some of this may be intended: the issuance of green cards and citizenship applications partially stops the discounts in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But waiting lists also extend to basic government services such as obtaining passports or tax recovery operations.
The “quagmire”, as Trump may call it, may feel like many crowded bodies in Washington Capital Pay parts of paper. Certainly it can often be slow, associated with the base and not accountable. But a system that depends on political loyalty more than the entitlement is ready to fail. Bureaucrats make sure that foods are not toxic. The cars do not explode when they are broken; This toxic waste is not thrown into the wild. “The federal government is very weak,” says Paul Light, a political scientist at New York University. Mr. Trump, he says, risk becoming a “president” that I did not shit, and many people have been killed. ” ■
