Trump threat: ‘You’re fired!’

War on the bureaucracy: On his election campaign trail, Trump had pledged to re-institute Schedule F, an executive order to convert civil servants to “at-will” workers, who could more easily be fired and replaced with political appointees. — Reuters

Inside America’s federal workforce that Trump has promised to eviscerate.

THE tremors from Donald Trump’s decisive electoral victory have hit every corner of Washington. But their maximum intensity is felt by the United States capital’s federal workforce, which comprises tens of thousands of mostly anonymous employees not-so-fondly referred to by Trump as “the deep state.”