When President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on the line.
That’s a really bad take. A) Doing a job which is not specifically to carry out Trump’s will is not supporting him. B) Federal jobs are not inherently political, in fact very few are. C) even if they were in positions to effect political outcomes, they could use those positions to counter Trump’s agenda. They can’t do that if they quit. D) Nobody should be expected to abandon their livelihood for themselves and their families because they are tenuously, barely, kind of in a position that forwards Trump’s administrations policies. A USDA meat inspector quiting to spurnTrump will do nothing to Trump and yet ruin their career.
Civil service positions are apolitical. You are supposed to do them regardless of which party is in charge. That’s the whole point. Otherwise literally nothing would ever get done.
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That’s a really bad take. A) Doing a job which is not specifically to carry out Trump’s will is not supporting him. B) Federal jobs are not inherently political, in fact very few are. C) even if they were in positions to effect political outcomes, they could use those positions to counter Trump’s agenda. They can’t do that if they quit. D) Nobody should be expected to abandon their livelihood for themselves and their families because they are tenuously, barely, kind of in a position that forwards Trump’s administrations policies. A USDA meat inspector quiting to spurnTrump will do nothing to Trump and yet ruin their career.
Civil service positions are apolitical. You are supposed to do them regardless of which party is in charge. That’s the whole point. Otherwise literally nothing would ever get done.
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In office? What are you talking about?
Civil service jobs are not elected positions.