HOLY SMOKES!

you love Russia eh? Well start your course on how to speak the language, cuz it's coming here...

“This is a big rule change inside there, that allows people to get at places they hadn’t before,” he told reporters.
The new rule follows requests by the Trump transition team for lists of the names of employees involved in specific programs, such as Energy Department scientists who have worked on climate change.
It is a scheme by Republicans to starve the beast
Federal agencies they disapprove of will see their pay scales minimized to the point where they can't hire workers
Then Republicans will declare the agency ineffective and worthy of dissolution
Rightwinger, the Trump transition team asked for the NAMES of the employees in the energy department AND for this rule of $1 salary to be instituted.
they were both part of the same transaction.
they asked for NAMES of just every day career employees....
WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT, for what purpose would a scientist's name do them?
they are not seeking the reduction in salary simply to eliminate a JOB POSITION that they see as fruitless,
It's to remove a PERSON with a NAME, who they think may differ with their predetermined view, or simply for their political party affiliation or voting record.
Sure, this may be in the guise of saving money, and back doors to getting rid of departments the R's can't get rid of without a vote of ALL of our representatives that are suppose to represent us citizens.....
BUT, it is MORE than THAT, when you are talking about the Trump team asking for this rule reinstatement AND the NAMES of career employees in a specific department....at the same time.