Civil servants shouldn't quit their jobs

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Civil servants shouldn't quit their jobs

Most high-level federal employees are understood to “serve at the pleasure of the president.” So when Donald Trump won the election, it was inevitable that Gina Raimondo would be gone as Commerce Secretary. Nobody fired her; it was just a turnover of administrations. If Kamala Harris had won, we would have been faced with a rare same-party transition that posed the question of whether Biden appointees should expect to stay on or resign by defaul…