As President-elect Donald Trump moves to shake up the federal bureaucracy, White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez pushed a new Red Scare on Tuesday’s edition of the PBS NewsHour.
But first came a series of clips introduced by anchor Amna Nawaz of several disgruntled bureaucrats and union members working (for now) in the federal government. Surprise! They’re all opposed to Trump’s plans. One example will suffice:
As if government employees are more vulnerable to job loss than private-sector ones!
Nawaz set up White House correspondent Barron-Lopez.
Barron-Lopez explained that President Biden “tried to protect federal workers” but that Trump can reverse it, then ran a clip of a public policy professor opposed to Trump’s move, making the segment even more one-sided (she said she had also talked to Mike Howell, head of the Oversight Project at the conservative Heritage…
