Contact Jordan LaPier Director (202) 495-3320 jlapier@ourpublicservice.org Make America incompetent again? Trump wants to ruin our merit-based federal jobs system. December 1, 2020 Federal agencies across the government are quietly moving ahead with an 11th hour plan to fill vacant, nonpartisan career jobs with political appointees as well as fire and replace civil servants with individuals loyal to President Donald Trump.