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David Bianculli

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Fresh Air
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

We see directing an investigation into ActBlue, the major Democratic donor platform that happened just last week. So they've started to move forward on making the Justice Department a wing of the executive branch or a wing of the presidency. that they can use to enforce their will and enforce the things that they talk about elsewhere in the plan.

Fresh Air
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

Yeah. So Schedule F is the idea that there are a lot of employees who are civil servants who should be converted to political appointees. A civil servant has a lot of protections. They can challenge any firing. They can be fired for cause. They can go through a long review process. And often if there's not cause, they will get their firing overturned or they'll get some sort of payout.

Fresh Air
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

Yeah. So Schedule F is the idea that there are a lot of employees who are civil servants who should be converted to political appointees. A civil servant has a lot of protections. They can challenge any firing. They can be fired for cause. They can go through a long review process. And often if there's not cause, they will get their firing overturned or they'll get some sort of payout.

Fresh Air
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

Yeah. So Schedule F is the idea that there are a lot of employees who are civil servants who should be converted to political appointees. A civil servant has a lot of protections. They can challenge any firing. They can be fired for cause. They can go through a long review process. And often if there's not cause, they will get their firing overturned or they'll get some sort of payout.

Fresh Air
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

But the president doesn't want people who are going to be slow to respond. He wants them to be doing exactly what he wants. So if you convert them to political appointees, political appointees can be fired at any time for any reason by the president who appointed them.

Fresh Air
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

But the president doesn't want people who are going to be slow to respond. He wants them to be doing exactly what he wants. So if you convert them to political appointees, political appointees can be fired at any time for any reason by the president who appointed them.

Fresh Air
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

But the president doesn't want people who are going to be slow to respond. He wants them to be doing exactly what he wants. So if you convert them to political appointees, political appointees can be fired at any time for any reason by the president who appointed them.

Fresh Air
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

This is another Russell Vogt idea, who's the head of Office of Management and Budget and was in the first Trump administration on either end of his time at Project 2025. So they issued an executive order along these lines at the tail end of the first Trump administration. And then as soon as Joe Biden took office, he withdrew the order. And so it was kind of dead there.

Fresh Air
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

This is another Russell Vogt idea, who's the head of Office of Management and Budget and was in the first Trump administration on either end of his time at Project 2025. So they issued an executive order along these lines at the tail end of the first Trump administration. And then as soon as Joe Biden took office, he withdrew the order. And so it was kind of dead there.

Fresh Air
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

This is another Russell Vogt idea, who's the head of Office of Management and Budget and was in the first Trump administration on either end of his time at Project 2025. So they issued an executive order along these lines at the tail end of the first Trump administration. And then as soon as Joe Biden took office, he withdrew the order. And so it was kind of dead there.

Fresh Air
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

But it was something that the Trump administration is has now started pursuing once again.

Fresh Air
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

But it was something that the Trump administration is has now started pursuing once again.

Fresh Air
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

But it was something that the Trump administration is has now started pursuing once again.

Fresh Air
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

You know, it falls down to this idea of a unitary executive. They see things like civil servants who can't be fired by the president and they think it is abhorrent to the Constitution, because if the president is in charge of the executive branch, he should be able to do what he wants with the executive branch.

Fresh Air
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

You know, it falls down to this idea of a unitary executive. They see things like civil servants who can't be fired by the president and they think it is abhorrent to the Constitution, because if the president is in charge of the executive branch, he should be able to do what he wants with the executive branch.

Fresh Air
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

You know, it falls down to this idea of a unitary executive. They see things like civil servants who can't be fired by the president and they think it is abhorrent to the Constitution, because if the president is in charge of the executive branch, he should be able to do what he wants with the executive branch.

Fresh Air
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

And so when you see a civil servant who can't do that, they think that that that violates the Constitution. And it just makes it very hard for a president to do what he wants. We obviously saw Trump really struggling during his first term in office. to do a lot of the things he promised to do and to do a lot of things he was trying to do.

Fresh Air
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

And so when you see a civil servant who can't do that, they think that that that violates the Constitution. And it just makes it very hard for a president to do what he wants. We obviously saw Trump really struggling during his first term in office. to do a lot of the things he promised to do and to do a lot of things he was trying to do.

Fresh Air
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

And so when you see a civil servant who can't do that, they think that that that violates the Constitution. And it just makes it very hard for a president to do what he wants. We obviously saw Trump really struggling during his first term in office. to do a lot of the things he promised to do and to do a lot of things he was trying to do.

Fresh Air
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

And for them, a lot of that blame came down to civil servants who tried to block it by, you know, following rules or regulations, maybe working specifically to the rule rather than trying to get things done.