The two largest federal employee unions denounced Florida Gov. DeSantis’s vow that as president he would “start slitting throats” in the federal bureaucracy — the latest escalation in intensifying GOP attacks on government operations they want to slash.
“slit some throats” while discussing changes he’d make at the Pentagon as president.unions representing tens of thousands of federal workers called on DeSantis to retract his words. Tony Reardon, national president of the National Treasury Employees Union — which represents about 150,000 employees at the Internal Revenue Service and 30 other federal agencies — called the comments “repulsive and unworthy of the presidential campaign trail” in a statement.
DeSantis has said he would try to eliminate the Internal Revenue Service, which collects taxes, and the departments of Education, Commerce and Energy. He’s also pledged to “radically reduce the size” of the Justice Department, fire the director of the FBI andVivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur and first-time presidential candidate, has declared plans to abolish numerous agencies and to drastically overhaul others.
thousands of federal workers who serve in roles with some influence over policy — a change that would make it easier for the White House to remove career employees with little due process. The executive order, known as ‘Schedule F,” instituted near the end of his presidency and reversed as one of President Biden’s first acts in office, is one feature of Trump’s 2024 bid to “dismantle the deep state,” he has said.
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