Summary: The old question persists. Why should it be so difficult to remove underperforming federal employees? Our next guest argues that feds could become at-will employees with fewer job protections, and that wouldn't mean a return to the patronage system. He was Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy during the Trump administration, now with the conservative America First Policy Institute, James Sherk. He talked with Tom Temin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
