Drain that swamp.
by Trey Sanchez
Now that Donald Trump is in the White House, civil servants are sweating bullets and for the first time in a long time, are worried about keeping their jobs.
The New York Times says federal workers have been “shaken by the Trump transition” and are filled with “a sense of dread.” (cue the Jaws music above):
Across the vast federal bureaucracy, Donald J. Trump’s arrival in the White House has spread anxiety, frustration, fear and resistance among many of the two million nonpolitical civil servants who say they work for the public, not a particular president.
At the Environmental Protection Agency, a group of scientists strategized this past week about how to slow-walk President Trump’s environmental orders without being fired. At the Treasury Department, civil servants are quietly gathering information about whistle-blower protections as they polish their résumés.
At the United States Digital Service — the youthful cadre of employees who left jobs at Google, Facebook or Microsoft to join the Obama administration — workers are debating how to stop Mr. Trump should he want to use the databases they made more efficient to target specific immigrant groups.
“It’s almost a sense of dread, as in, what will happen to us,” said Gabrielle Martin, a trial lawyer and 30-year veteran at the Denver office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where colleagues now share daily, grim predictions about the fate of their jobs under Mr. Trump’s leadership.
“It’s like the movie music when the shark is coming,” Ms. Martin said, referring to “Jaws,” the 1975 thriller. “People are just wary — is the shark going to come up out of the water?”
“Boo-hoo,” says Michael Walsh at PJ Media. “Gee, that’s too damn bad.”
Walsh states that the GOP created the civil service “as a reaction to the Democrats’ plundering patronage system” and it was something the party didn’t like. But my how things changed when they learned it could benefit them by “putting in good, unfireable… men [to] control the Permanent Government forever,” Walsh adds.
Now that President Trump is shaking up Washington and sending the clear signal that no government job is safe (see: former acting Attorney General Sally Yates), the disenfranchised bureaucracy are walking away or figuring out ways to fight back, as the NYT reports:
[T]he concerns of federal employees are being spread across social media, on accounts with names like “@Rogue_DOD,” “@Alt_DeptofEd” and “@AngryWHStaffer.” One anonymous Twitter user created “@WhitehouseLeaks,” with a purported mission to reveal the secret workings of the Trump administration from within the West Wing…
“There was a group of people who were planning some public display of protest with the purpose of leaving,” a federal employee in Washington said.
But this is great news. No one should every be guaranteed a job for life, especially in the federal government. Walsh concludes his piece:
For Trump — or any other future Republican president — to succeed, control of the government must be wrested back from two distinct, left-leaning groups of cultural sappers: the regulatory agencies (which Congress and/or the president could dissolve in an instant) and the civil service, which needs to be terminated. It came from nothing more than Goo-goo (19th-century slang for “good government”) feelings, and to nothing it should return.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/civil-servants-sweating-bullets-now-trump-charge