Trump SOTU 2018
"All Americans deserve accountability and respect -- and that is what we are giving them. So tonight, I call on the Congress to empower every Cabinet Secretary with the authority to reward good workers -- and to 'remove' Federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the American people."
~ trump SOTU 2018
Parse this. A cabinet member hired and fired by Trump would be able to cleanse an agency of all those who were not loyal.
So far, most pundits haven’t drilled deep into this as they are transfixed on the more obvious issues.