Contempt Spurs Trump Purge

It may not be much to brag about, but give the Trump Administration credit for making no pretense of its anti-union bias when it comes to government workers. It manages to invert reality to try to convince its supporters that career civil servants, rather than the President’s own group of ethically challenged appointees and the profligately chaotic management style that led him to file for business bankruptcy six times in the private sector, are what’s ailing the Federal Government.

The administration recently moved two U.S. Department of Agriculture scientific research units to Kansas City, Mo. from Washington, D.C. The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents many of those workers, has claimed that the shift was not about trying to improve services to taxpayers but rather an effort to force veteran employees who were understandably reluctant to relocate halfway across the country to quit.