Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plans
An outside group is quietly investigating scores of federal employees suspected of being hostile to the conservative policies promised by Republican Donald Trump. With a $100,000 grant from the influential Heritage Foundation, the American Accountability Foundation is digging into the backgrounds of key high-ranking government employees, starting with Department of Homeland Security. It shows the lengths Trump's allies are willing to go to make sure no one can stop a potential second-term agenda. Democracy experts and a government federal employees union say the move conjures up the McCarthy-era “red scare.” Heritage's Project 2025 has a plan to make it easier to fire federal workers, but the Biden administration instituted a new rule to try to prevent that.