Bureaucrats Contemplating Mass Exodus Ahead of Trump’s Inauguration

Career federal employees afraid of Trump’s promise to rid government agencies of bureaucrats are planning a mass exodus before the President-elect takes office. 

Besides directly firing bureaucrats Trump promised to relocate federal agencies from Washington D.C. to the states. Based on previous experiences, many bureaucrats would choose to lose their jobs and stay in Washington D.C. rather than relocate. 

Trump also promised to reclassify up to 50,000 federal jobs as political appointees who can be fired for political reasons. Reclassifying those positions would create a clear distinction between neutral federal employees and political appointees. Trump would also re-issue an executive order allowing him to fire federal employees.

Previously, many federal employees have acted like political appointees to push the Leftist agenda while presenting themselves as neutral. 

For example, 51 intel officials infamously signed a letter discrediting Hunter Biden’s laptop story as Russian disinformation, a political narrative peddled by the Biden administration.

“Progressives love to say ‘let’s keep politics out of this,’” Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) posted on X. “What they really mean is ‘let’s make sure the people have no say in this’”

According to Sen. Lee, progressives want government experts to make decisions that are beyond their power or scrutiny, creating “un-reviewable tyranny.”

Aware of the extent of partisanship in Washington, Trump’s landslide victory is sending jitters across federal agencies as bureaucrats reflect on the future of their careers.

“I think there would probably be an exodus, because federal employees just want to do their jobs. They want to do the job according to law and regulation,” Jacqueline Simon, policy director of the American Federation of Government Employees, told the Hill. 

These career bureaucrats claim their exit is not a result of playing partisan politics with the previous administration, but that President Trump intends to fill federal positions with political loyalists – as if they’re not political loyalists themselves.

“They do not want to be political appointees. They don’t want politics to interfere with any aspect of their job,” Simon said, without a hint of irony.

Former Federal Salary Council chief Ronald Sanders, who resigned over Trump’s executive order establishing Schedule F, also said Trump’s review of the federal service was about political loyalty.

“When I talked to folks in the first Trump administration, it became clear to me that they were really after political loyalty,” he said, adding that it was not about ensuring greater accountability.

These excuses create perfect justifications for career federal employees to resign in advance to avoid scrutiny when Trump takes office – and we welcome them!

Besides mass quitting, many career federal employees could also lose their jobs when the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) scraps entire departments. 

Similarly, Trump’s Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has proposed purging entire departments while the President-elect also hinted at scrapping the Department of Education.