<p>Washington: President <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> said on Tuesday he plans to remove over 1,000 appointees from the administration of former President <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>, announcing four dismissals on social media, including celebrity chef Jose Andres and former top general Mark Milley.</p><p>"My Presidential Personnel Office is actively in the process of identifying and removing over a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration, who are not aligned with our vision to Make America Great Again," Trump said in a post on Truth Social just after midnight.</p><p>The step is likely to reignite concerns that the president aims to replace Biden appointees with individuals faithful to his agenda.</p><p>Trump said he was dismissing Milley, who was given a pre-emptive pardon by Biden on Monday, from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council.</p><p>Andres, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Biden, was removed from the President's Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, Trump said in the post.</p><p>The portrait of Milley, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who Trump has suggested should be executed for holding back-channel talks with China, was removed from the Pentagon shortly after Trump's inauguration on Monday.</p>.Fact Check | Donald Trump’s inaugural speech examined.<p>Trump also said he was removing former diplomat Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms from the President's Export Council.</p><p>"Let this serve as Official Notice of Dismissal for these 4 individuals, with many more, coming soon," Trump wrote, adding: "YOU'RE FIRED!"</p><p>Trump also ordered federal workers to return to the office five days a week and weakened job protections for civil servants on Monday, the first salvoes in his campaign to gut the federal bureaucracy.</p><p>Trump's allies have said the return-to-work mandate and the stripping of civil service protections - widely known as "Schedule F" - is intended to help the president replace long-serving government workers with loyalists.</p>
<p>Washington: President <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> said on Tuesday he plans to remove over 1,000 appointees from the administration of former President <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>, announcing four dismissals on social media, including celebrity chef Jose Andres and former top general Mark Milley.</p><p>"My Presidential Personnel Office is actively in the process of identifying and removing over a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration, who are not aligned with our vision to Make America Great Again," Trump said in a post on Truth Social just after midnight.</p><p>The step is likely to reignite concerns that the president aims to replace Biden appointees with individuals faithful to his agenda.</p><p>Trump said he was dismissing Milley, who was given a pre-emptive pardon by Biden on Monday, from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council.</p><p>Andres, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Biden, was removed from the President's Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, Trump said in the post.</p><p>The portrait of Milley, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who Trump has suggested should be executed for holding back-channel talks with China, was removed from the Pentagon shortly after Trump's inauguration on Monday.</p>.Fact Check | Donald Trump’s inaugural speech examined.<p>Trump also said he was removing former diplomat Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms from the President's Export Council.</p><p>"Let this serve as Official Notice of Dismissal for these 4 individuals, with many more, coming soon," Trump wrote, adding: "YOU'RE FIRED!"</p><p>Trump also ordered federal workers to return to the office five days a week and weakened job protections for civil servants on Monday, the first salvoes in his campaign to gut the federal bureaucracy.</p><p>Trump's allies have said the return-to-work mandate and the stripping of civil service protections - widely known as "Schedule F" - is intended to help the president replace long-serving government workers with loyalists.</p>