While the Trump administration is engaging in mass firings, purging Justice Department agents and attorneys, and strangling federal agencies like USAID, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, teams of what have been referred to as "MAGA commissars" have been fanning out across federal agencies to screen applicants for government positions for complete and unwavering loyalty—not to the United States, but to Donald John Trump.

If you didn't support him in the election, if you have social media posts questioning his policies, or if you can't affirmatively state how eager you are to enforce his dictates, you're out.

"We're cleaning house," Sergio Gor, director of White House Personnel, told Fox News. "If you are working in the federal government in a political appointee position, that comes through the White House now."

There is an atmosphere of fear for those federal employees who haven't been purged yet, with worries that they're being surveilled by DOGE and many workers nervous that even the slightest........

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