Think about this: The next time you take a road trip with your family, do you want the person in charge of highway safety to have gone to school and passed a test, or do you want them to have the job because they helped President Trump sell his famous Trump Steaks?

What about the air traffic controller who’s supposed to make sure your family arrives safely at grandma’s house? Would you feel assured knowing they hold the position because they dutifully breached the Capitol on Jan. 6 at Trump’s behest?

That could be the future we’re facing, because of the president’s blistering hostility toward the federal workforce and determination to upend the civil service. On his first day, he moved to reinstate a plan he originally issued in October 2020 , Schedule F, to end job protections for thousands of federal workers.

Schedule F wouldn’t just make it easier to fire these workers — it would also make it easier to hire new ones, because it would “exempt some positions across the federal workforce from competitive hiring procedures.”

That’s head-spinning, coming from the people who claim they want a “meritocracy” in government.

If you’ve ever........

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