Trump abruptly replaces federal personnel director after just 7 months

[mahatmakanejeeves]

The story is over 24 hours old. I moved it over here from LBN.

Trump abruptly replaces federal personnel director after just 7 months

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Trump abruptly replaces federal personnel director after just 7 months

By Eric Yoder and Lisa Rein
October 5 at 7:11 PM

President Trump on Friday abruptly replaced his federal personnel director after just seven months, leaving the agency that oversees 2.1 million civil servants with no permanent leadership at a time when the White House has proposed drastically shrinking its mission.

The White House announced Friday that Margaret Weichert, a senior official of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, is taking over for Jeff Tien Han Pon, the head of the Office of Personnel Management.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment about the departure of Pon, who was confirmed by the Senate in March. ... But people close to Pon said he was at odds with the administration over its planned revamp of the personnel agency, which would have diminished his role and authority.

As part of a proposed government-wide reorganization announced by Trump in June, most of the OPM’s functions would be farmed out to other departments and its policy role shifted to the White House.
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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Apparently he didn't want a guy who might interfere with the hiring

of more unqualified, incompetent, grifting cronies with Russian contacts.

[nature-lover]

2. Fired by the WH is as positive on a resume' these days. Put it at the top.

[SuprstitionAintthWay]

3. To control govt agencies you must control their people.

Every authoritarian everywhere knows you have to control personnel.

I think it was Andrew Jackson who enacted the first reforms to the U.S. Govt's hiring and firing practices, which, as the young nation grew, had become partisan spoils and heavily abused. Later, Woodrow Wilson, in particular, worked to make federal civil service a meritocracy... well, for caucasians, anyway.

You're gonna have leaders who want the very opposite of those kinds of improvements. Who wants a civil service not of ethical professionals, but of employees he can easily bend to his will.

One such leader is in charge of our country now. Somebody's educated him to these facts.

[LoisB]

4. One more step in donnie's march to dictatorship.