Charlie Kirk: “We need to fire thousands of federal employees”

Kirk: Trump “can invoke something called Schedule F, which allows him to fire federal employees at will. He should have done it in the first term.”

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Project 2025, a comprehensive transition plan organized by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to guide the next GOP presidential administration, is the conservative movement’s most robust policy and staffing proposal for a potential second Trump White House — and its extreme agenda represents a threat to democracy, civil rights, the climate, and more. 

Project 2025 focuses on packing the next GOP administration with extreme loyalists to former President Donald Trump. 

The plan aims to reinstate Schedule F, a Trump-era executive order that makes federal employees fireable at-will, stripping tens of thousands of employees of civil service protections. Both Trump and others in the conservative movement have said they will clear out the federal government if he is reelected. The project has even set up online trainings and loyalty tests to narrow down potential hires to those who will commit to follow Trump without question. As Project 2025 senior adviser John McEntee has said, “The number one thing you're looking for is people that are aligned with the agenda.”

Read more about Project 2025 here.

From the July 12, 2024, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble

CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): He can invoke something called Schedule F, which allows him to fire federal employees at will. He should have done it in the first term, but there was a lot of question about it. And we need to fire thousands of federal employees, especially the ones that have been working against our interest and working against the interest of the American people.

There's also — and we had Vivek Ramaswamy on this program where we talked about this at length, where Vivek went into all the different details of how you can basically merge different departments together, where the Department of Education can merge with other — where you can eliminate federal departments. There's quite — there's a remarkable amount of power invested in the presidency where you are able to eliminate waste duplication and excess. And I think Donald Trump is uniquely positioned to be able to do that in his second term.