Trump Appointee resigns over President's order removing job protections for many civil servants:
The Trump Administration has spent much of the past 4 years purging career professionals who failed unofficial loyalty tests. They've literally scoured social media posts of civil servants to determine if they were "disloyal" to Trump.
Whistleblowers have alerted Congress that people were being demoted or forces out of their jobs for suspicion of lacking loyalty.
And an IG report found widespread political purges going on in the Administration.
Most Federal Employees are officially protected from being discriminated against for their political views (1st Amendment rights), but that hasn't stopped the Trump Administration from discriminating on just that. Now he's trying to reclassify tens of thousands of Federal employees as political appointees- who aren't protected by any legislation passed by Congress.
The Trump administration-appointed head of a key advisory council on the civil service has resigned over an executive order to strip away protections against political interference in hiring and firing for a large portion of the career federal workforce.
The order, which could affect tens of thousands or more career positions involved in making or carrying out policy, “is nothing more than a smoke screen for what is clearly an attempt to require the political loyalty of those who advise the President, or failing that, to enable their removal with little if any due process,” Ronald Sanders wrote in his letter of resignation Sunday from the Federal Salary Council.This is dangerous. This is what dictators do. This is what the Chinese Communist Party does. It's what Russia does. It is NOT what other functional democracies do. It's authoritarianism.“I simply cannot be part of an Administration that seeks . . . to replace apolitical expertise with political obeisance. Career Federal employees are legally and duty-bound to be nonpartisan; they take an oath to preserve and protect our Constitution and the rule of law . . . not to be loyal to a particular President or Administration,” he wrote.