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After DOGE firings White House asks new job seekers to write Trump loyalty essays, from lawyers to janitors
civil servants should be loyal to the country, its Constitution and Laws, NOT one person above all else.
The Office of Personnel Management last week quietly published a memorandum authored by Vince Haley, the White House’s head of domestic policy that was addressed to the head or acting head of every agency across the entire executive branch.
According to the White House’s directive, a copy of which was reviewed by The Independent, anyone applying for a civil service position at entry level or above — including such jobs as nurses, janitors, economists and lawyers, among others — must respond to a series of essay questions before they can even be considered for an interview.
Adam Bonica, a Stanford University political scientist who publishes the “On Data and Democracy” newsletter on Substack, wrote on Sunday that the White House’s directive “signals a profound departure from a cornerstone of American democracy: the non-partisan, merit-based civil service” and looks to implement Project 2025 efforts to deconstruct the nonpartisan civil service in favor of a return to the “spoils system” that was in place until the late 1800s.
“A merit-based civil service that took generations to build is being dismantled via memo,” he charged.
civil servants should be loyal to the country, its Constitution and Laws, NOT one person above all else.