Ben Wikler: “It would remove the independence of civil servants, people…”

“You can go, the project does, go department by department and come up with a plan to render government basically a turn it into a group of shock troopers for Donald Trump. It would remove the independence of civil servants, people who go to work every day and serve the public regardless of whether there's a Democratic or Republican administration. It would reclassify them, make them liable to being terminated immediately. They've been recruiting this huge number of people who are ready to pledge allegiance and loyalty to Donald Trump …” (31:50–32:00)

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