Trump thinks the 2 million civilians who work in the federal government are part of a “mythical deep state,” writes Becker. “They’ve got to be held accountable,” Trump has said. “They’re destroying this country. They’re crooked people. They’re dishonest people.”
Trump plans to fire tens of thousands of them and relocate hundreds of thousands more outside of Washington, D.C. He seems to want to return to a time when “jobs were awarded based not on merit and expertise but on a person’s political connections to the sitting president or his party.”
“The return to cronyism is part of Trump’s strategy to suppress government work that contradicts his often unrealistic and dangerous views,” Becker says.
“Kamala Harris, Liz Cheney and many others from the two political parties say it’s time to put our country and the Constitution above partisanship,” Beckers writes. “The same is true for federal careerists. For the sake of good government and the American people, they should vote on Nov. 5 to save our merit-based civil service.”
Read the op-ed at TheHill.com.
