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Dear WH: follow the rules but please remove the remaining Trump political appointees [1]
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Date: 2022-07-31
Maybe tag them so we can tell them from other employees.
x Now that it’s clear that the Trump-appointed DHS OIG is helping protect trump, is anyone surprised the trump-appointed IRS commissioner hasn’t gone after him for his obvious tax crimes? @POTUS : FIRE THE TRUMP APPOINTEES NOW or stop complaining that he’s never held accountable! — Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) July 31, 2022
x Tell me there is a reason why Biden didn’t remove all the Trump appointees the day he took office…. — Mystery Solvent (@MysterySolvent) July 30, 2022
x REMOVE TRUMP APPOINTEES
https://t.co/16Lw86kwrJ — Pippa (@BUBEEEEE) July 31, 2022
x Happy weekend, @POTUS. Please replace all Inspectors General appointed by trump. Start with DoD, ICIG, HHS, DHS, DoT. Then assign someone to rebuild agency whistleblower protection offices that were decimated by trump.
And DeJoy. Tell the postal board of governors to fire him. — Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) July 30, 2022
x Abuse of power: Trump fired 6 IGs in 5 weeks to replace them with corrupt cronies.
Failure to use power: Biden has fired none of Trump’s corrupt cronies even when there is credible evidence of their wrongdoing. — Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) July 30, 2022
x “Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued a statement Friday calling the missing messages “an extremely serious matter” and said he would ask the Justice Department to intervene.” — Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) July 30, 2022
x Thread by @jenmercieca: Trump's plan to remove non-political appointees is a return to the "political spoils system," which @HC_Richardson explains is an authoritarian trick for creating a government loyal to the leader, not the constitution
https://t.co/Pc944yf2g4 — Glenn Tenney (@glenntenney) July 25, 2022
x Trump has 2024 plan to fire thousands of federal workers and replace them with 'America First' loyalists: report
https://t.co/STkkORVwBk Trump history repeats: Jan/20, DJT appointed McEntee,to identify & remove political appointees/ career officials deemed insufficiently loyal. — David (@David66506546) July 23, 2022
x The coup attempt never ended. — Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) July 20, 2022
(December 2020) Christopher Prandoni was just 29 when he joined President Donald Trump’s administration as associate director for natural resources at the Council on Environmental Quality. Last year, he hopped over to the Interior Department and became a close adviser to Secretary David Bernhardt, sometimes attending multiple meetings a day with the agency head.
In April, Bernhardt named Prandoni, only three years out of law school, to a $114,000-a-year position that’s part of the career civil service. His appointment as a judge in the Interior Department’s Office of Hearings and Appeals, which arbitrates land-use disputes, drew sharp criticism from environmental groups concerned that Prandoni would infuse ideology into decisions and undermine the panel’s integrity.
“The job that Prandoni was given was a gift; it was payment for time served,” said Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “He never in a thousand years would have gotten this job if he hadn’t worked directly with David Bernhardt for months at a time implementing the Trump agenda.”
Prandoni, whose new job was reported over the summer by E&E News, didn’t reply to a request for comment. He is among 32 political appointees whom the administration has sought to hire into civil service positions in the first three quarters of this year, a phenomenon known as “burrowing” that occurs at the end of every administration. Congress requires the Office of Personnel Management to provide summaries of such requests, since career jobs hold over from one administration to the next and generally have more protections against partisan attempts at removal.
Burrowing has a history that traces back to civil service reforms of the late 1880s, when Congress passed a law to try to ensure that jobs were awarded on merit rather than patronage. The number of hires sought under Trump is so far roughly similar to the tally of other recent administrations.
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