Hes now positioned to make good on that promise during the next 10 weeks of his presidential transition.
If this all sounds familiar, thats because Trump tried this all before without much success.
In October 2020, hesignedan executive order to create a new personnel classification for high-ranking bureaucrats with policymaking responsibilities.
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally on Nov. 5, 2024, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
All could be fired within weeks of Trump taking office.
Nevertheless, loyalty will be the chief metric of how Trump will sift through all the resumes.
Thats not just because getting rid of thousands of seasoned experts is just a bad idea.
There is another option.
Just four years ago,Joe Bidens team confronted the same challenge of how to quickly staff its government.
People I interviewed for a book published this summer who were involved in that transition attested to that point.
It was Bidens victory and his agenda that the new administration would pursue.
Deportations
Another person reiterated a similar point to me about a shift that happened after the 2020 election.
All signs right now point to the Trump transition teams disinterest in asking for help, especially from Democrats.
Who those insiders are exactly, we may never know.
