Fun bit of schadenfreude at The Hill:
Trump White House clashes with resistant civil servants
Tensions between President Trump and the civil service have spilled out into the open as the bureaucracy’s career employees publicly clash with their chief executive.
Civil servants were always bound to be at odds with the president, who promised to drain the government “swamp.” But now a string of spats with the bureaucracy, culminating Friday with the president’s controversial immigration executive order, has forced that bad blood to become public. After the acting attorney general refused to defend Trump’s order on Monday night, he fired her. Meanwhile, hundreds of State Department diplomats are reportedly signing on to a dissent memo criticizing the policy.
The moves are the latest signals of unease from a civil service facing a 180-degree shift from the previous administration and a new president who repeatedly lambasted the bureaucracy while on the campaign stump.
“I don’t recall any kind of dissent like this happening either in a Democratic or Republican administration — this is clearly unusual,” said Chris Lu, the former deputy secretary of Labor in the Obama administration.
These people are appointed and not elected. All throughout his campaign, Trump said that he was going to reduce the size of the Federal Government and now, the bureaucrats are just waking up to this reality. The smart ones have probably already jumped ship and are working for some university. The stupid ones will be on food stamps and public housing in 3... 2... 1...
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