All the (former) president’s men

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🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Why President Biden may not be able to fire some federal employees appointed during the Trump administration. The first Latino senator from California. And, what the new federal mask mandate means for you.

Lisa Rein reports that while Biden is firing some top Trump holdovers, in some cases, his hands may be tied.

California Gov. Newsom selects Alex Padilla to replace Kamala Harris in the Senate.

How do Biden’s new mask orders work? Health reporter William Wan explains.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, it's Robert Samuels from the Washington Post.
0:09.1	Post is Sarah Kaplan.
0:10.7	Hi, this is Elahi Azari with the Washington Post.
0:13.8	They.
0:14.8	This is Post Reports.
0:15.8	I'm Martin Powers.
0:19.8	It's Wednesday, January 27.
0:24.0	Today, why Biden may not be able to fire Trump appointees?
0:28.4	Plus the new Senator from California and what the federal mask mandate means for you.
0:37.2	As President Biden is setting up his new administration and having Senate hearings for his nominees
0:43.2	to run the federal agencies, he's running into this problem that is an issue really at
0:49.6	the end of any administration, but is much more pronounced under Trump.
0:56.6	Lisa Reine covers the federal government for the post.
0:59.8	She's been reporting on the Trump holdovers that have stayed on even though Trump is no
1:04.4	longer president.
1:06.4	It's colloquially called burrowing, but this is a strategy that political appointees use
1:14.3	to convert their political jobs to career jobs in the federal civil service.
1:20.4	It might have been the same job they had as a political appointee or an entirely different
1:25.0	job altogether.
1:27.3	Sometimes they're qualified for the job, sometimes they're not, but this is something that
1:32.0	Biden is confronting because it is happening at the end of the Trump administration much
1:36.6	more than it did at the end of the Obama administration.
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