Trump swapping bureaucrats for loyalists is like firing the weatherman and hiring a guy who just loves sunshine. The government isn’t a reality show, but he sure wants all the contestants to swear loyalty to him. If expertise doesn’t matter, let’s start picking doctors based on their high-fives.

If something doesn’t change, one researcher who was affected said his study will run out of key supplies by next week. If that happens, the research results would be compromised, and he would have to recruit new patients, he said.