Tag: loyalists
The other issue with Trump’s plan to stuff the government with loyalists
Familiar figures from Donald Trump’s orbit showed up at the Republican convention in Milwaukee on Wednesday. There was his former adviser Peter Navarro, who gave a rip-roaring speech to an enthusiastic audience. There was his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort. His longtime adviser Roger Stone showed up on the convention floor, too. All of them …
J.D. Vance’s plan to create a government with an army of Trump loyalists and allies
Donald Trump’s allies have laid out sweeping plans to reshape the executive branch of the federal government if he is returned to power, plans that involve firing perhaps tens of thousands of career civil servants and replacing them with handpicked MAGA allies. But how far, exactly, would Trump go in trying to tear down what …
Donald Trump wants to reinstate a spoils system in federal government by hiring political loyalists regardless of competence
If elected to serve a second term, Donald Trump says he supports a plan that would give him the authority to fire as many as 50,000 civil servants and replace them with members of his political party loyal to him. Under this plan, if he eventually deemed those new employees disloyal, he claims he could …