[CincyRichieRich]

I don’t think I’d mind if Tillerson stayed. But I want everyone else at State to be fired.
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Let’s see how Rex behaves on his Sunday interview today.

[hal ogen]

Rather than having to face the “firestorm” of firing all these striped-pants bums, sign an executive order than has them (a) sitting in their offices sans ANY communication devices of any sort, (b)recall all state dept employees back to the USA and (c) drop all “consultants”.

[yoe]

Has anyone ever head Bolton weigh in on the firing of State employees? I have felt that unionizing government employees is a conflict in interest...i.e., the taxpayers pay their salaries.

Another view....

(...These civil servants have federal job protections) that make it hard for any president to throw them out and replace them with new hires ― to “drain the swamp,” as Trump has put it.