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pray4peace4 26 points ago +31 / -5

Just realize that the President can only fire individuals who are Presidential appointees, not civil service employees. So that means Trump can only fire the top guy & maybe his deputy. I suspect that it's managerial level civil servants who are pushing this & that's going to make this more difficult. Federal HR is notoriously slow & swampy. There are backhanded ways to deactivate federal managers & higher, like promoting them to a new department or location, like in South Dakota, where the person has absolutely no function nor employees & has no authority to do anything. I saw that happen a lot when I worked for the feds. They put these malcontents in a sort of Siberia & abandon them there. That works in a practical kind of way, but they still get paid so it's not perfect.

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MarshallisMad 56 points ago +56 / -0

This is wrong. The President can fire every single employee within an Executive branch agency and ban them from Federal service for life. Look up Regan firing 11,345 Air Traffic Controllers.

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DrCowboyPresident 3 points ago +8 / -5

That was almost 40 years ago.

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YouKnowWhatItIs87 35 points ago +35 / -0

Respectfully, what’s your point?

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Trump_Train 5 points ago +5 / -0

The very definition of MAGA

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LeftistsAreInsane 9 points ago +9 / -0

The fact that it was 40 years ago is irrelevant. Did the law change since then?

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pray4peace4 -1 points ago +1 / -2

You are as wrong as wrong can be. Congress passed legislation that restricts the President's power to terminate to appointed personnel only, no civil service employees. I have linked an article that explains the issue & the Supreme Court decisions that have limited the President's power to terminate federal employees:

https://www.ucpublicaffairs.com/home/2017/5/16/why-the-president-cant-unilaterally-hire-or-fire-who-he-wants-by-daniel-tagliarina

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STEVE_HUFFMANS_BULL 43 points ago +43 / -0

He doesn’t have to fire anyone. He’s instructed his departments that anyone who pushes this shit doesn’t receive federal funding, which in the case of the CDC is their entire budget.

Good luck to them trying to pay the diversity department with $0 of inward cash flow

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DeadOverRed 24 points ago +25 / -1

That's not true- they can be fired for breaking the law. It's illegal to discriminate by race. Fire them.

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deleted 14 points ago +14 / -0
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Destineed369 4 points ago +4 / -0

Well it’s a big place and government is slow.

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Neptunes_rings 14 points ago +14 / -0

Reagan and thousands of former ATC's disagree.

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CovefefeREEEE 15 points ago +15 / -0

"You're fired."

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centexawesome 13 points ago +13 / -0

This is what happens when you let the weirdos in academia make up fields of study out of thin air just to get them off your back.

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hit_backspace 7 points ago +7 / -0

In clown world, science has been totally corrupted and studies can no longer be taken seriously with full confidence they speak the truth.

It's all about narratives now. Studies that go with the mainstream narrative get published and the authors get funding. Results that don't quite fit are shunned.

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Fabius 4 points ago +4 / -0

Arrest and jail.

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DemsHaveNoHomeHere 3 points ago +3 / -0

"Ching chong ching chong, let's replace evil American scientists with the retards we made universities accept due to muh racisms and have them do our bidding sneaky sneaky ching chong"

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Ssue1216 2 points ago +3 / -1

So at the end of the day what can our president do about it?

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Staatssicherheit 11 points ago +11 / -0

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a national public health institute in the United States. It is a United States federal agency, under the Department of Health and Human Services and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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cowpen 6 points ago +6 / -0

It's also made up of 90% liberal democrat donors so none of this (or the bullshit they spout about China flu) should be surprising.

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DittoHead 1 point ago +1 / -0

Sounds a lot like NPR and PBS

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Truglow 1 point ago +1 / -0

Located in Atlanta. Thats the problem.

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DeadOverRed 9 points ago +9 / -0

It's a federal agency under Homeland Security.

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tdavis25 7 points ago +7 / -0

Its actually under Health and Human Services, not Homeland.

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DeadOverRed 4 points ago +4 / -0

Thanks!

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tdavis25 2 points ago +2 / -0

no worries!

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tdavis25 8 points ago +8 / -0

Wrong. It is a federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services the same as the FDA.