Should the President be allowed to easily fire non-political federal civil servants?
Yes, but we should focus on abolishing useless agencies rather than just firing staff.
It can be difficult to see the utility of departments and as the system exists now, there is not nearly enough oversight for one person (POTUS) to make such drastic decisions. If the president is given unlimited access to gut the system as they see fit, there will be vast consequences that we can't fully realize until it's too late to fix them.
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