“My Office of Presidential Personnel is actively in the process of identifying and removing more than a thousand presidential appointees from the previous administration who do not align with our vision of making America great.” Great is back,” President Trump announced on the social network Truth Social. This is President Trump’s first announcement on Truth Social since he took office at noon on January 20 (US time), according to AFP.
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Mr. Trump also named four senior officials who were fired immediately, including chef Jose Andres from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition; former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council; former diplomat Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms from the President’s Export Council.
US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump at an event in Washington DC on January 20
Among them, chef Jose Andres was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by former President Joe Biden, while Mr. Milley had a conflict with Mr. Trump in the previous term.
The above step will likely reignite concerns that President Trump wants to replace Mr. Biden’s appointees with individuals loyal to the new leader’s agenda, according to Reuters.
President Trump also ordered federal workers to return to the office five days a week and weakened job protections for public employees. These are the first moves in Mr. Trump’s reform campaign for the federal government apparatus.
Mr. Trump’s allies say the return-to-office order and the removal of civil servant protections are intended to help the president replace longtime government employees with loyalists, according to Reuters. .
