
Trump Transition Team Demands Resignation of Career Diplomats
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President Donald Trump’s transition team has asked senior career diplomats to step down ahead of Monday’s inauguration.
Dereck Hogan, Marcia Bernicat, and Alaina Teplitz, who oversee the U.S. State Department’s workforce, have been asked to step down by the Trump team, Reuters reported.
The officials have been in charge of the workforce and internal State Department coordination and need to be removed in order for Trump to clean house.
Typically, career foreign service officers continue from one administration to the next while many other federal officials experience turnover when administrations change.
Trump is not interested in keeping anyone from previous administrations on board, however.
Those career diplomats and officials undermined Trump’s administration during his first term.
Trump promised supporters that he would “clean out the deep state.”
The plan involves firing bureaucrats that he believes are disloyal and that would slow down his agenda.
The news of Trump asking career officials to step down has already ignited panic among the Washington D.C. class of career bureaucrats.
One anonymous official stated:
“There’s a little bit of a concern that this might be setting the stage for something worse.”
The Trump campaign issued a statement in response to those grumblings saying:
“It is entirely appropriate for the transition to seek officials who share President Trump’s vision for putting our nation and America’s working men and women first.