alt Hacker News> Rank-and-file civil servants are protected from being fired
That cannot be true. They do not get a lifetime claim to the treasury which is not revocable by elected officials.
The members of the executive branch work for the chief executive.
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unethical_ban • last Thursday at 7:46 AM
Well, it is true that civil servants have those protections to some extent. You ignore the benefits. Look up Tammany hall and patronage.
No one says they get a lifetime claim, just that some cannot be legally fired without cause. Not sure why you are going to the extreme of "untouchable officials" and "lifetime claim" when no one has suggested that's the case.
If the law is that that an official cannot be fired without cause, then that's that, if there's no cause. Maybe they have a term of employment in that position, and when it ends, they leave. Maybe Congress can fire them via some other appropriate mechanism. But if the law says the president cannot fire them without cause, then that's just not a power the president has.