Word sweeping through Washington is that former President Donald Trump’s team is already looking at how it would do things differently in a second term.
One item that has the “swamp” concerned is a plan for an executive order allowing for the instant firing of federal workers, ending their near job-for-life status.
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“It would strip any official who has anything to do with policy of any real career protections or due process. Government employees could essentially be fired at will or even on a whim,” warned a federal worker union official.
As president, Trump and his budget team had high hopes of changing the federal hiring and firing process and making it closer to how corporate America operates, but they were met with strong resistance from federal unions.
- The folks at the Washington-based Federation for American Immigration Reform have landed a new executive director well-versed in Trump-style immigration policy. Julie Kirchner is also an old hand at FAIR, having already served in that role. During the Trump years, she was a top official with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ombudsman.
- Our friends at the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, the liquor lobby, have a new federal advocate. Denzel McGuire will head government affairs after working on Capitol Hill and the White House budget office.
- House Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries has settled on the phrase he plans to label his GOP foes with — “MAGA extremists.” Allies say he believes it sounds ominous and demeaning to the party, and he’s begun slipping it into fundraising emails.
