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Donald Trump has promised to gut the federal bureaucracy. But America's "merit-based civil service" is an essential bulwark against the political whims of a rogue president, writes op-ed contributor William Becker. |
Trump thinks the 2 million civilians who work in the federal government are part of a "mythical deep state," writes Becker. "They've got to be held accountable," Trump has said. "They're destroying this country. They're crooked people. They're dishonest people." Trump plans to fire tens of thousands of them and relocate hundreds of thousands more outside of Washington, D.C. He seems to want to return to a time when "jobs were awarded based not on merit and expertise but on a person's political connections to the sitting president or his party." "The return to cronyism is part of Trump's strategy to suppress government work that contradicts his often unrealistic and dangerous views," Becker says. "Kamala Harris, Liz Cheney and many others from the two political parties say it's time to put our country and the Constitution above partisanship," Beckers writes. "The same is true for federal careerists. For the sake of good government and the American people, they should vote on Nov. 5 to save our merit-based civil service." Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Views & Opinions newsletter, it's Tuesday, Oct. 22. I'm Daniel Allott, bringing together a collection of key opinion pieces published from a wide range of voices. |
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By Liz Peek, former partner of major bracket Wall Street firm Wertheim and Company |
Democrats want us to believe that the border is under control, that crime is down and that the economy is excellent. None of that is true, and the voters know it. |
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By W. Joseph Campbell, professor emeritus at American University in Washington, D.C. |
Donald Trump received enough late-campaign support from previously undecided voters in battleground states in 2016 to lift him to the presidency. As another example, the pre-election disclosure in 2000 of a drunken-driving arrest years before may have cost George W. Bush a popular vote victory. |
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By Alberto Gonzales, former US attorney general |
The president enforces the laws and protects our borders primarily with the tools given by Congress. It is central, then, that those tools address border security, abuse of asylum laws, detection and removal of criminal aliens, backlogged courts and the large unauthorized population in the country who are otherwise law-abiding but have no immigration relief available. |
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By Joseph Bosco, former China country director for the secretary of Defense |
The shifting campaign strategy on how a Harris-Walz foreign policy would differ from Biden-Harris offers only confusion for American voters and for foreign allies and adversaries. |
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