Reported Trump ‘loyalty tests’ for national-security officials draw criticism

Good government groups and Democrats are reacting to news first reported on Monday by The Associated Press that incoming senior Trump administration officials have begun questioning federal employees who work on the National Security Council about their political affiliations as part of an effort to ensure the White House entity is composed of loyalists. “The folks that are at the NSC, the career people that are there, are apolitical. They're the best experts in the fields that they'r