Firing the Experts: How Schedule F and Project 2025 Are Replacing Government Career Staff with Political Loyalists
About this episode
The episode discusses the implications of Schedule F and Project 2025 on government staffing and training, featuring insights from whistleblower Ryan Schwank.
Send us Fan Mail Ryan Schwank spent years training ICE officers. He taught them the use of force. He taught them constitutional law. He taught them the difference between a lawful order and an unlawful one. In January 2026, he filed an anonymous whistleblower complaint with Congress. He alleged that ICE training had been cut from 72 days to 42. That the class on the constitutional rights of protesters had been reduced from two hours to ten minutes. That a directive had authorized agents to en...
Topics covered
- government staffing
- political loyalty
- whistleblowing
- law enforcement training
- constitutional rights
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