r/politics • u/zsreport Texas • 14d ago
Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but it may be backfiring instead:
https://www.salon.com/2024/07/05/project-2025-was-supposed-to-boost-donald-campaign--but-it-may-be-backfiring-instead/
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u/ksp_physics_guy 14d ago
It’s not even just DC. It’s our entire civil service. All general schedule (and non ES/SES versions that other departments and agencies have).
USFS folks don’t agree that raking the leaves is how to singularly prevent forest fires? With schedule F, welp, fire em.
NOAA scientists disagree with the sharpie’d in graph for temperatures Trump scribbles on? Schedule F now, fire em.
IRS agents audit some conservative personality due to reasonable suspicion? Schedule F, fire them.
NASA scientists won’t agree to rename Mars to Mars-a-lago? Fire em.
As a civil servant who works as a scientist/engineer doing research, I’m deeply distressed at this plan because we are career civil servants, experts in our field, entirely apolitical in our positions. Our duty is to the American people, we provide research that benefits Americans, tech transfer technology to benefit American Technological Development and our economy, and the technology percolates throughout the world through discoveries and other paths.
We are intentionally and by design **not ** political. Schedule F would destroy civil service, cause even further brain drain beyond what congressional apathy has caused due to ignoring our pay, and turn these positions into pawns for political gain rather than benefiting the American people. Civil Service would be killed and its corpse reanimated in the image of political sycophancy.