“What we are seeing is the methodical implementation of a system where nonpolitical career employees can be fired for doing their job correctly but inconveniently, and where they will have nowhere to go for a fair, independent second look,” Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, told Federal News Network. “Historically, that’s why Congress created and built up the merit system of federal service over the past 150 years — to prevent political patronage, loyalty tests and retaliation against people who catch waste, fraud or abuse or who won’t rubber-stamp something of questionable legality.”
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