William Li: One way to think about it is, if the claim is these people write policy, what are the people above them doing? Twiddling their thumbs? The claim doesn’t hold water. There are very few actual policy-writing positions in the government

The future is terror. Funded by Heritage Foundation, the same group creating Project 2025, a GOP activist is snooping into the background of federal employees, creating a Trump enemies list. With Schedule F, they will fire those officials. apnews.com/article/trum...

Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plansapnews.com Tom Jones and his American Accountability Foundation are digging into the backgrounds, social media posts and commentary of key high-ranking government employees, starting with the Department of Homel...

We already knew that the Trump team had an enemies list of career officials they planned to fire based on their first term experiences. This is more wide-ranging. Last week I told a friend in the federal govt to delete his social media and start a Truth Social account. Only half-joking.

GS13! Yiiikes

Yeah. Intel Analysts for the various depts of DoD are GS-13s. That's just wild. Also, the article doesn't go much into Jones' qualifications (if any).

Yup. There are probably 300,000 GS 13 employees, and maybe 120,000 GS 14. That’s an educated guess. If you look at their titles, a lot of them will be analysts, or attorneys, or program specialists. They apply policy, or maybe advise on policy interpretations. They don’t write policy.

One way to think about it is, if the claim is these people write policy, what are the people above them doing? Twiddling their thumbs? The claim doesn’t hold water. There are very few actual policy-writing positions in the government

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