When Elon Musk bought Twitter, the first thing he did (after entering the offices with a sink in his hands) was to send an email to all employees, announcing that they had reached “a crossroads”, presenting their plans to cut Hugely the template and offering compensation to everyone who did not share his vision for X and would like to leave. When Donald Trump returned to the White House, US administration officials received that same email. And Musk has made it clear what his plans are: cut the template to the maximum and leave, if he can only strictly essential, sweeping with the census, the patent office or public statistics along the way. A permanent government closure ‘.
Trump has published several executive orders by opening the door so that Musk between with ‘La Operara’ to the US administration. As soon as he arrived, he launched the creation of a new category of officials, called “F” or “Political career”, based on a point of the law of the official approved after the Watergate scandal, and that all the presidents had ignored so far . This category would allow Trump Skip the legal protections to officials and fire tens of thousands of them.
The explanation is complex. The law prohibits dismissing officials due to sex, gender or political opinions, and forces to justify any dismissal for causes from causes (absences, systematic incompetence, crimes, etc.), which can be high before a court. However, Trump believes having found the ‘magic trick’ to deactivate these protections: An article that excepts officials who work in “confidential areas, to make policies, determine policies or propose policies” to continue by the government.
In theory, this article would apply at the level of high positions, as advisors or experts hired by managers of agencies and ministries to design political proposals. But Trump has decided to apply it to all officials who are in charge of executing the president’s decisions: Basically the vast majority of medium -level employees, who are calculated between tens and hundreds of thousands. Virtually everything that is above a Bedel or a receptionist.
Official organizations have gone to court to denounce this plan, claiming that This type of categorization was designed for exceptions, not to be the default designation of all. Even if the judges are right, Trump will take months to start it. But the concern is served: if this plan goes ahead, Trump can fire any official who considers that “they are not implementing administration policies to the maximum of their ability.” And, since they would not have the right to go to court, The president could say goodbye and without justifying all the officials who would like. Precisely what this law wanted to avoid: that each new government will throw in half of the career officials to replace them with others of their rope.
A ‘perpetual government closure
And with that open door to fire officials, Musk wants to get to work. Another order signed yesterday, with Musk himself (and his son X) of witness in the Oval Office, It places a team of representatives of the government efficiency department in each ministry and agencythe Doge that directs the billionaire of South African origin. Their role will be to supervise and approve all the contracts that are proposed, with the aim of limiting them to the maximum: a new contract for every 4 casualties, whether by retirement or resignation.
In the next month, the US administration managers must present a plan to cut their templates to the minimum possible. The document gives a clear example: The minimum services figures that remain standing when the so -called ‘government closures’ are produced’. That is, when the budgets are not approved on time, the US cannot extend them without further ado as in Spain, so the government cannot spend money. When that happens, all employees who are not strictly necessary are suspended from employment and salary, until Congress approves new accounts.
Trump and Musk’s idea is to try to reduce administration at that level: Maintain the templates with the essential minimum services to maintain the basic functions ordered by lawand nothing more. In the Labor Department that would mean firefighters of their 14,000 staff and close the statistics office that reports unemployment data, for example. In Health they would fire 39,000 of 88,000 employees, reducing the template of the Food and Medicine Administration, for example. And in commerce they would fire 44,000 of 52,000 employees, leaving just a handful of officials to manage the census or the patent office.
The only exceptions that Trump explicitly mentions are Defense, National Security and Immigration, the three ministries where no dismissal. His plan, thus, is to reduce the US administration to an army, a justice system and a machinery to deport immigrants, and liquidate everything that can be of the rest. The dream of a ‘libertarian’ as Musk who considers that the best government is the one that does not exist.
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