(Trump’s order) will be carried out mainly by attrition as staffers rotate back to their original positions at the State Department and other federal agencies, and
not by layoffs or firings."..........??? This is a chance to
fire/remove the person from the US gov. pay role period. Otherwise why go to the trouble while keeping the bloated and nefarious government whole.
Agreed. But presumably at least there won’t be somebody else filling their old positions and they will be a little further out from the center of power, whereby they can do less harm—as they are undoubtedly mostly of the Democrat/Never Trump kind.