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There's many people who would reasonably disagree with a course like this, because there are no elected positions in the EPA.

The whole "overstepping their mandate" thing is perceived as a very real and present threat among MAGA people, for this reason specifically. This is the whole notion of "The Swamp" Trump was going to drain; unelected career bureaucrats.

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That they would disagree isn't in question. That their position is reasonable is, however, very much up for debate. Career bureaucrats are literally the pool of experience and expertise that make government agencies function, to the extent that's possible given legislative hobbles. The only thing that gets drained when these people are replaced by elected officials or private industry is expertise and theoretically sane incentives.

It’s funny how it seems we care more about years of expertise for the engineers on our software teams than the people running government.

There’s a balance that needs to be struck between new blood with fresh perspectives and old guard with decades of experience navigating Washington politics.

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