A growing number of congressional Republicans are desperately trying to back-channel with White House officials as President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency ramps up its slash-and-burn firings of federal workers.
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“I thought we were supposed to be in a new era of meritocracy. Not the indiscriminate firing of people,” said one Republican congressional aide granted anonymity to speak candidly.
People that grew up under the New Deal consensus shocked to learn the country could fall back to a pre Teddy Roosevelt patronage system and that it would be a bad thing.
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