The president should have more power to hire and fire people throughout the federal bureaucracy- true or false?

I have a debate in my political science class next monday and will either have to argue the affirmative or negative side of this debate. if anyone could give me the pro and con sides of this issue and some information and websites i could look at that would be very helpfulThe president should have more power to hire and fire people throughout the federal bureaucracy- true or false?
What if he fired the entire Congress? Would that work for you? The president should have more power to hire and fire people throughout the federal bureaucracy- true or false?
First off, the President has a cabinet. That is, people (usually referred to as Secretaries) who head up different departments in the executive branch. Each department, Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Defense, State Dept, Dept of Transportation, each have various departments within their own department, with various responsibilities. These department heads are responsible for those under them, have a greater understanding and working relationship of federal employees, and would be the one to determine who should be hired and/or fired. The President is generally far removed from them, and that is the purpose for the hierarchy.





Like the Secretary of Transportation has has the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), FMCSA (Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration) etc. Each of those sub divisions has smaller divisions within them. So the President may order the firing of bureaucrats, but does not directly fire them. In fact in 1981, President Reagan fired, or ordered the firing by the FAA of 12,000 air traffic controllers who were striking and refused to return to work, on Reagan's orders.





Fact is, the President can fire, or at least order the replacement of workers in the private sector, if national security is threatened. Airline pilots, truck drivers working in the private sector, can be imprisoned, fined, and replaced, if say a strike is called and the welfare, security, safety, or economy of the nation is in jeopardy, they are ordered back to work, but refuse. The President orders the firing, but the department heads would actually carry it out. .





The President cannot fire those elected to positions or offices. The U.S. House can impeach them, the Senate place them on trial and remove them, including the President.





So the President CAN already fire anyone throughout the bureaucracy, directly or through chain of command. He would tell his Secretary of that particular dept, who in turn would tell one of the dept heads to tell those under them, until it got down to the supervisor, or head of the person the President wants fired. And yes, he should have the power, in the event the nations security is in danger.