Pentagon officials discussing how to respond if Trump issues controversial orders

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2. Civilian employees at risk In a video posted last year, Trump said if elected he would "immediately re-issue my 2020

Jeez. It only gets worse the more I read.


Civilian employees at risk

In a video posted last year, Trump said if elected he would “immediately re-issue my 2020 Executive Order restoring the President’s authority to remove rogue bureaucrats…we will clean out all of the corrupt actors in our National Security and Intelligence apparatus, and there are plenty of them.”

The Pentagon is already bracing for the policy change.

“My email has been inundated on this topic,” one defense official said of Schedule F. “Definitely going to be a busy couple months.”

After Trump issued Schedule F the first time, late into his last term, the Pentagon and other federal agencies were tasked with making lists of which employees would be moved into that category. At the time, defense officials tried to include as few civilian employees as possible to limit the impact to the workforce, sources said. The department is making similar lists now. ......................................................................................