President Trump said early Tuesday his staffers are "actively in the process of identifying and removing" over a 1,000 presidential appointees from the Biden administration, including retired U.S. Army Gen.
The newly inducted president has workplace reforms planned as he takes office. Trump has ordered federal officials to return to the office five days a week and weakened job protections for civil servants on Monday,
They include celebrity chef José Andrés and the commandant of the US Coast Guard Adm Linda Fagan, as well as retired US army general Mark Milley who had served on the National Infrastructure Advisory Council.
The decision is part of the president's overarching MAGA agenda to "drain the swamp" and destroy the "deep state."
Donald Trump has wasted no time weeding out more than 1000 staff, appointed under the Biden administration, who he considers to be anti-MAGA.
Musk has promised to trim $2 trillion from the federal budget under the helm of the agency, a sum that constitutes more than Congress has in discretionary spending. Doing so would practically defund the entire executive branch, which doles out funding for the military, national security, and all federal agencies.
DEI focus and border security lapses were listed among the reasons the Coast Guard commandant was fired to kick off the Trump administration.
With shovels in hand, and under brilliant sunshine, San Jose city and community leaders, and other stakeholders broke ground on the next interim housing site, in the Blossom Valley section of the city.
Trump’s second term is beginning, and his inner circle looks vastly different from his first. This time, he is surrounded by loyal supporters of the MAGA movement, including former rivals like Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
President Trump is making headlines with a bold move to reshape the federal workforce on his first day back in the White House. In a decisive sweep, he has initiated the dismissal of over 1,000 appointees from the previous Biden administration.
Though Trump started off his first full day as president by unceremoniously firing four prominent appointees from Biden’s administration, several of them pushed back on his characterization of events.