Trump touts authoritarian vision for second term: ‘I am your justice’

[BidenPresident]

Mandatory stop-and-frisk. Deploying the military to fight street crime, break up gangs and deport immigrants. Purging the federal workforce and charging leakers.

Former president Donald Trump has steadily begun outlining his vision for a second-term agenda, focusing on unfinished business from his time in the White House and an expansive vision for how he would wield federal power. In online videos and stump speeches, Trump is pledging to pick up where his first term left off and push even further.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2023/04/21/trump-agenda-policies-2024/

 

[signalmankenneth]

You won't have a federal workforce if Trump is president again?!! Our federal government would be made up of Trump loyalist and ass-wipes?!! Trump implemented schedule F, lucky for us he lost the 2020 election?!!

A Schedule F appointment was a job classification in the excepted service of the United States federal civil service that existed briefly at the end of the Trump administration during 2020–2021. It would have contained policy-related positions, removing their civil service protections and making them easy to fire. It was never fully implemented, and no one was appointed to it before it was repealed at the beginning of the Biden administration.

The purpose of the provision was to increase the President's control over the federal career civil service. While proponents stated this would increase flexibility and accountability, it was widely criticized as providing means to retaliate against federal officials for political reasons. It was estimated that tens or hundreds of thousands of career employees could have lost their civil service protections, increasing the number of political appointments by a factor of ten.

It was repealed by President Biden through Executive Order 14003 on January 22, 2021, the third day of his administration, by executive order.[SUP][10][/SUP][SUP][13][/SUP] No employees had been moved to the new classification.