All Washington behaves like their hair is burning, with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) requirement that federal employees list them Achieve. Many behave like they don’t know the answer and want to call their friends.
For a thorough review, the civil service system has been behind for a long time.
Let’s start with this simple fact: America’s most leftist institutions almost Three million members of the federal workforce. There probably aren’t any groups nearby. Over nine people in Washington, DC residents I voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris. We know that an overwhelming number of federal employees are registered Democrats.
Workers have the right to vote for who they want. However, in an age where the left is preaching only diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), there is no organized worker group with less diversity, less inclusiveness and less equitable than federal workers when it comes to ideology.
We have found that the federal government smoking ban rates are based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. only For people working in the private sector, one-third of quitting rates. In the private sector, it’s up or out. In Washington, it is almost impossible to fire workers.
Unions and workers know how to play employment games like master chess players. Dismiss federal workers who are incompetent or belligerent or chronically late and prepare for a blizzard of discriminatory or illegal dismissal lawsuits. It’s a well-isolated racket.
For federal managers trying to do it right by taxpayers, keeping the worst workers on their pay is less stressful and costly.
It’s unfair, I remember with morale to dedicated federal workers – and there are hundreds of thousands of people – they really want to serve the country and help people. But even they are sucked into a punch time clock reward system that simply encourages mediocreness.
Until now. Trump and Elon want a new, highly professional civil servant workforce. They want to fire bad actors.
Why should federal workers not face the same routine scrutiny and standard of service in the private sector? This is especially true when an employer is losing money. In this case, it would be an adjustment of $2 trillion per year.
In his first term, Trump tried to set up a performance-based paycheck in the civil service system. This would have benefited a great deal of the best employees. But Trump – as Reagan returned in the 1980s, handed him his head to “politicize” the sacred civil servant system. It was a man against the machine, and the machine won.
Trump wants to reduce the bloated federal workers. This creates a more lean, productive, and customer-reactive work environment. And perhaps even more diverse than that politics. It’s time.
Stephen Moore is a Senior Fellow of the Heritage Foundation and co-founder of Unleash Prosperity.
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