In October 2020, then-president Donald Trump signed an executive order that would’ve allowed him to fire a broad swath of the nonpartisan civil servants who run the day-to-day operations of every part of the US government. Now, his allies are laying the groundwork for him to follow through on that plan if he retakes the presidency in 2025.
According to Axios, a slew of Trump-aligned think tanks and non-profits are “developing lists of candidates selected often for their animus against the system — in line with Trump’s long-running obsession with draining ‘the swamp’” who would be placed in federal agencies on day one of a second Trump administration.
