Published:
November 2, 2020
Professor Don Kettl comments on President Trump's executive order of Oct. 21:
"The [existing] protections are important because there should not be, in my mind, a Democratic or Republican way of forecasting hurricanes, or landing men or women on the moon, or ensuring that Social Security checks reach people's bank accounts every month," said Donald F. Kettl, a professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin.
"For almost 140 years, we've had a tradition of hiring people based on merit, promoting them on the basis of merit, and what this does at a stroke is put all of that tradition in jeopardy," he said.