Trump's former energy regulator offers up plan to purge workers overseeing the power grid

The former chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission would like to advise former President Donald Trump on which energy regulation employees can be laid off as part of a widespread MAGA restructuring of the civil service, Politico reported Thursday.

“For the @realDonaldTrump transition team - it [sic] you want schedule F insight on who to keep and who to remove @ferc please DM me,” wrote Neil Chatterjee on X.

He followed up by posting, “They reached out 7 minutes after I tweeted this.”

Speaking later to Politico...