re: #102 Belafon

All the easier to fire him then.

Is it?
OK, I will freely claim absolutely NO expertise in the details of Federal hiring laws, but ISTR reading somewhere that many of the Trump Admin’s spate of “last-minute” appointments were being done to insert (or TRY to insert) loyal wingnuts into various administrative positions that fall under some sort or other of “civil service” protection, so that they can’t just “be fired”. Or at least not as easily as the “political” appointees.