Interior Dept. targets Deep Staters with revived Trump-era essay questions for new hires

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Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum

Job applicants to the US Department of the Interior will soon face a revamped hiring process that includes essay questions, part of an effort to align federal personnel more closely with presidential priorities and weed out the deep staters.

An internal memo circulated last week by the department’s human capital office outlines the integration of the questions as part of a broader merit-based hiring plan, rather than the diversity-mandated hiring strategy of the Biden Administration. Applicants must write four 200-word essays addressing their work ethic, skills and experience, commitment to the Constitution, and how they would advance President Trump’s executive orders and policy priorities. The last item has earned the scorn of anti-Trumpers.

The essay component originates from a federal hiring overhaul launched in 2020 under Trump 1, to modernize civil service recruitment. Led by the Office of Personnel Management, the initiative emphasized practical skills over traditional educational credentials and sought to streamline the hiring process through shorter resumes and competency-based evaluations. The OPM has directed agencies to stop collecting demographic data on race, sex, and religion in the workforce.

While some civil service reform advocates have praised the plan, deep staters are wringing their hands about their chances to infiltrate government agencies.

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    • This seems pretty simple to me and it is a question asked by almost every HR person in the world: What do you understand about this company ? Why do you want to work here and how do you think you would fit in.?”

  1. “rather than the diversity-mandated hiring strategy of the Biden Administration.”
    That is an overly polite way of saying the great replacement mandate, or the anti white mandate. Never have a people been so polite while being deracinated and disenfranchised. Shame on “conservatives” for being such cowards for lack of a better word.
    White children are now a hated minority in America, that is the “conservative”legacy.

  2. This has to happen. The deep state must be rooted out and destroyed. I used to listen to my father in law years ago before he retired. He was a scientist. He continually wondered where they were getting these new hires that were more interested in ideology and going to meetings than actually getting work done. They were the future of the deep state. That was 30 years ago.

  3. “Loyalty tests” make a lot of sense, although some use it as a pejorative. If you’re not loyal to President Trump, you have no business in government. They should apply the loyalty test to all current government employees. You’re either loyal to President Trump, or you’re out of a job, that simple. This is especially critical for military and federal police, the two groups that can oppose President Trump the most.

    We are almost there. Just need to keep pushing a bit longer and we will Make America Great Again!
    DJT 2028!

    • Are you kidding me? The loyalty is to the constitution not the person in the White House.

      You know the Constitution right? The one that includes the 22nd amendment that says only two terms are allowed for anyone for the office of the president?

      • Not seeing the requirement for loyalty to an individual here.
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        As the CEO of the Executive Branch of the US Government, there is a very valid reason to ask how a prospective employee will carry out the executive orders of the CEO. Where is the demand for loyalty to an individual?

    • Where is the loyalty test?
      Show it to us.
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      Do not be fooled by the MSM. Having to state how you would follow out an Executive Order is not a loyalty test. It is a demonstration to your employer that you are ready to advance the organization.

  4. Nothing deep state about this sinister piffle. All it is is a loyalty oath to the president, which is not what government employees are hired to do. When every federal employee is hired, they take a loyalty oath to the Constitution not to the president. It’s not an unimportant distinction.

    • Where is the loyalty oath? Show me the “sinister piffle.”
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      The President of the United States is the chief executive of the Executive Branch. As the chief executive, the President has the authority (legally) to issue orders. Asking a prospective employer to describe how they would carry out a legally issued order as part of a job application is not a loyalty test in any way. It is a determination of qualifications.
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      Show me the loyalty oath to an individual.

      • Really? OK. The application is now asking how an employee would carry out the Presidents policies. If Biden had required the same thing, you would be rending your garment. Please don’t pretend otherwise.

        • First of all, you did not answer my question. Where is the loyalty oath?
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          If Biden required the same thing…
          It would be well in line with his authority as President, and I would be challenging any Republican that claimed it was a loyalty test, just like I challenged you.
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          Reminder. If you take a Federal Government job, you work for the President of the United States. Tell us all, exactly why a prospective employee should not be asked to explain how they are going to support the policies of the CEO of the company? Please take your time, i will wait.

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