and Trump term look like and you have some fantastic reporting that aims to look at that in very

exact detail and part of it centers around a lot of it centers around an executive order he put in

place can you tell us about this he put this in place it was resented by the Biden administration

it kind of flew under the radar but this is a crucial element of what it might look like if he

is elected again. Yeah so this is a two pot series that we lost on exos on Friday and

Saturday and I've been working on this for more than three months basically piecing together

all these different aspects of what is effectively an administration in waiting for Trump for 2025

there's a lot more going on behind the scenes that have been publicly reported and at the heart of

all of this is a legal instrument it's an executive order called schedule that they call schedule F

and if your viewers haven't heard a schedule F or hadn't heard of it before the stories that's

for good reason because it was developed in strict secrecy for most of the Trump administration

at least for the last two years of it and it was only finally issued the Trump only signed it into

law 13 days before the presidential election in 2020 and you know when you put out some anodyne

sounding order called schedule F amid the craziest election in American history you know you could

be forgiven for not paying attention to it but it's actually profound what it does it allows

cabinet agencies to reclassify tens of thousands of career civil servants who have currently

underlaw and have the decades very strong employment protections because the idea is that these

career civil servants nonpartisan continue from one administration to the next regardless of

the party of the president in power Trump wants to fire tens of thousands potentially at least

thousands of these people that he calls pejoratively the deep state and what this order allows him to do

is to reclassify them as a new employment category called schedule F they immediately lose almost

all of their employment protections and can be easily fired and replaced so that's happening there

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