Maggie: There are some people with minimal government experience running large organizations in positions of power, so there will be a basic question about their preparation to oversee complex departments. But cabinet secretaries aren't the only people who matter. The team that Trump is putting in place, as deputies or chiefs of staff or senior advisers at agencies, are people who've proved some form of loyalty to him in other situations. All administrations do that to some degree. This version is much more sweeping.
Charlie: For all the chaos of Trump's first term, he was occasionally constrained by traditional Republicans in Congress and inside his own administration, by a federal judiciary he had not yet transformed and by career officials. All those constraints will be weaker this time. An important thing is that Trump is planning to reinstate a change from the end of the first administration, one that the Biden administration rolled back. This change, known as Schedule F, would make it easier for cabinet officials to fire career civil servants and replace them with loyalists.
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