The order is pretty blatantly illegal. There’s no real interpretation, just a straightforward law, passed very recently, that says you need to fire them in this way. So they’ll probably get their pay and get officially confirmed to be still employed eventually. Presumably the people who are inspectors general aren’t living paycheck to paycheck. The important thing is to not give Trump the additional power to just say illegal things and then everyone else just accepts them.
Or if they just stop getting paychecks.
The order is pretty blatantly illegal. There’s no real interpretation, just a straightforward law, passed very recently, that says you need to fire them in this way. So they’ll probably get their pay and get officially confirmed to be still employed eventually. Presumably the people who are inspectors general aren’t living paycheck to paycheck. The important thing is to not give Trump the additional power to just say illegal things and then everyone else just accepts them.