Civil servants shouldn't quit their jobs

Don't give in to Trump's attempted purge

Civil servants shouldn't quit their jobs Don't give in to Trump's attempted purge Matthew Yglesias Feb 03, 2025 561 424 33 Share Most high-level federal employees are understood to “serve at the pleasure of the president.” So when Donald Trump won the election, it was inevitable that Gina Raimondo would be gone as Commerce Secretary. Nobody fired her; it was just a turnover of administrations. If Kamala Harris had won, we would have been faced with a rare same-party transition that posed the question of whether Biden appointees should expect to stay on or resign by default. But she didn’t, so

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