Preventing a Patronage System Act (PPSA) Act

(3) actions, one of which is due by Nov. 17th.

Before Trump left office, he signed “Schedule F,” an executive order to fill the entire executive branch with his lackeys. Biden rescinded it, but without a law, it waits for any GOP president to resurrect a “spoils” system of corruption!

With the backing of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 – the ‘Far-Right Playbook for American Authoritarianism‘, Trump has repeated his threat to “gut the existing U.S. government and ‘install a pre-vetted, pro-Trump army of up to 54,000 loyalists’ to take over senior legal, judicial, defense, regulatory, and domestic policy jobs in the civil service.” This would effectively removing any guardrails to his actions, no matter how unconstitutional or destructive they may be. By removing career officials’ protection from forced politicization with “Schedule F, “…Donald Trump is telling us, loud and clear, that he wants to end American democracy as we know it.”

ACTION #1: Call your representatives!

We originally published this post in August of 2022. We have updated the bill numbers and names.

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Trump signed an executive order to fill the entire executive branch with his lackeys.

1830s – President Andrew Jackson riding a pig, which is walking over “fraud,” “bribery,” and “spoils,” and feeding on “plunder.”

“There’s a reason authoritarians target the bureaucracy. Once they have it under their control, they are better able to stifle dissent and criticism, reward friends and punish enemies, using the levers of government to maintain power.” – Donald Moynihan

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt