I refer to his e-mail to the feds giving them 48 hours to justify their jobs or be fired.
This is the kind of headline that gives a lot of people a thrill but is ridiculous and unworkable on just about every level...legal, practical, logistical, you name it.
That's why most of Trump's big-name appointees...Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, and others...are telling their workforces to ignore it. It's an attack on their authority to run their own departments.
And that's exactly why it worked out for the best. Because it gives those guys the opportunity to make a statement establishing their own independence and credibility.
Meanwhile, amid all the ruckus about feds being fired, what's getting lost in the uproar is that the vast majority have been in probationary positions. The low-hanging fruit. The hard fact is that it's not easy to fire your average fed due to the large array of civil service rules and laws. I'm not saying that's a good thing. But it is the reality.
This is the kind of headline that gives a lot of people a thrill but is ridiculous and unworkable on just about every level...legal, practical, logistical, you name it.
That's why most of Trump's big-name appointees...Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, and others...are telling their workforces to ignore it. It's an attack on their authority to run their own departments.
And that's exactly why it worked out for the best. Because it gives those guys the opportunity to make a statement establishing their own independence and credibility.
Meanwhile, amid all the ruckus about feds being fired, what's getting lost in the uproar is that the vast majority have been in probationary positions. The low-hanging fruit. The hard fact is that it's not easy to fire your average fed due to the large array of civil service rules and laws. I'm not saying that's a good thing. But it is the reality.
