Much of the 2024 presidential campaign has been dominated by the myriad investigations into former president Donald Trump and the subsequent charges against him. But with less than a year until Election Day, Trump is dominating the race for the Republican nomination and has already laid out a sweeping set of policy goals should he win a second term.
Trump would try to strip tens of thousands of career employees of their civil service protections. That way, they could be fired as he seeks to totally obliterate the deep state. He would try to accomplish that by reissuing a 2020 executive order known as Schedule F. That would allow him to reclassify masses of employees, with a particular focus, he has said, on corrupt bureaucrats who have weaponized our justice system and corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus. Given his anger at the FBI and federal prosecutors pursuing criminal cases against him, Trump probably would target people linked to those prosecutions for retribution. Beyond the firings, he wants to crack down on government officials who leak to reporters. He also wants to require that federal employees pass a new civil service test.
Trump has pledged to immediately stop the flow of drugs and migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border. His plans include maintaining and expanding border walls, ending catch-and-release policies, and implementing mass deportations.
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