[biohcacker84]

Overall, there has to be something like those agencies with career professionals. How to minimize harm?

20% of the people do 80% of the work. The problem is incentives. Which political appointee has the incentive to fight the federal workers union and be great manager, rewarding the 20% and punishing the rest? Until the next election?

It's tragic, but this inability to deal with federal employees is a reason why perhaps getting rid of whole departments is the only practical way to make real reforms.

[anigbrowl]

This sounds like a truism, and truisms don't seem like a great basis for policy. Surely you can come up with some more objective measure of federal worker productivity rather than relying on lazy cliches.