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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Umm, what's wrong with any of this?[/quote]

The part where it says “How would you help advance the President’s Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role” is the [i]last[/i] thing any of us should want for federal hires. This is asking explicitly for people who have a partisan leaning. Why would it be good for the country if we hire only people who have a political bent? That’s exactly what the current administration has been trying (incompetently and ill-advisedly) to find and weed out. [/quote]

Umm, you work for the President. If you can't work with his priorities and orders, then you shouldn't work for the Government. [/quote]

Wow. Yikes. As a fed, you have an actual job description and contract. Your agency has a clearly defined mission. If a potus wants to change that, there is a process to do so. And it is not by demanding that you implement all of his EOs.

I used to work for an agency that most would consider to be liberal, but I actually worked with more republicans than democrats at that agency. Politics did not guide us. Science and data guided us. It was balanced and that’s what made it effective. I can’t imagine that agency having a complete turnover every 4-8 years, just undoing and redoing whatever came before. [/quote]

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