That's my legal justification. So I understand the legal footing. By the way, what stopped Trump? The civil service protections, they said. Correct. Well, guess what? Read the law. Civil service protections protect against the individual firings of employees for supposedly political reasons. They do not apply to mass layoffs. And mass layoffs are absolutely what I'm bringing to Washington, D.C. would you lay it off, reform it, or close it down? These institutions, many agencies. I would just shut down the agencies. (36:12–36:22)
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Asserts that civil service protections do not apply to mass layoffs, only individual firings for political reasons.
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