‘Right Over the Target’: Former Trump Adviser Says Federal Bureaucrats Must Be Held Accountable
Former Trump adviser James Sherk says the pushback in Washington against an executive order that would allow the president to fire federal employees is confirmation that the policy is necessary.
Sherk is the director of the Center for American Freedom at the America First Policy Institute. In an interview for EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program, he said he helped craft the Schedule F executive order after witnessing career bureaucrats blocking President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Schedule F would enable a president to fire powerful bureaucrats who engage in insubordination or intransigence. As it stands now, civil service protections make it nearly impossible to successfully fire a federal employee, Sherk said….