Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's plan to replace the "deep state" with loyalists to Trump and their cause, sort of worked, though not in the way they planned. Elon Musk was tasked with finding "waste, fraud, and abuse," and thousands of federal workers were fired en masse, particularly those on probation. Some agencies were closed altogether. Originally, Project 2025 called for reclassifying key positions and turning them into political appointments, once protected by career service non-partisanship, using a mechanism called Schedule F. Musk and the Trump administration effectively bypassed much of that with the mass firings. However, the Heritage Foundation's plan to have cadres of replacements screened for ideological purity to fill vacant positions began to be implemented when one of its plan authors was appointed to head the Office of Management and Budget by Trump. The Trump administration has had six months to implement this scheme. How far they have gone toward their goal is not clear, but what has been done so far will stay in place. A judge has just made it harder to do much more in the future, other than filling vacancies, putting a halt to mass firings... Those unlawfully fired, per the Supreme Court, will not be reinstated. The Heritage Plan is now faced with filling vacancies, but they cannot do any unlawful mass firings to cause the vacancies as they once did. Trump administration unlawfully directed mass US worker terminations, judge rules
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