As I’m sure you do, I hold family who serve our country in highest regard.  Those serving in the military receive special respect, but the folks that run our government and make it actually work for us, civil servants, work quietly in the background for all of us. 
My cousin has worked over 25 years as a “fire weather forecaster” at the National Weather Service.  To get to that role he took four years of science in college followed by years of specialized training.  Now he is an expert in his role, traveling globally during fire season from one incident to the next.  Today he is working at the Park Wildfire in California.  People’s lives depend on his work being accurate.  He is a typical civil servant.
It was then interesting when reading in Project 2025 policy book “Mandate for Leadership”, page 80, that it is felt that increasing the number of political appointees to replace civil servant employees is considered such a priority that then President Trump issued Executive Order 13957 and created “Schedule F” to suspend civil service qualifications and rules to administratively convert civil service positions to political appointees.  President Biden revoked this order.
Trump had supported Project 2025 until recently when he realized many people were reading it.   He now denies knowing anything about it.  He previously implemented this executive order when he was president.  Would he do so again?   Would he again make the critical requirement for a civil service position be allegiance to Donald Trump?
I fly; air traffic control is important to me.  I use prescription drugs; the Food and Drug Administration is important to me.  I use gasoline and electricity; the Department of Energy is important to me. I eat; the Department of Agriculture is important to me.   A well run, functioning government that serves the citizens of the United States, not the president, is important to me.
Keith Steva
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