During his brief unemployment, he explored opportunities flying for a private firefighting company – and still would not rule out leaving NOAA. He remains angry that fellow veterans were caught up in the layoffs.

He backed Trump due to the president’s commitment to the rule of law, he said, but now Mr Ripp thinks Trump is flouting the correct procedures for reducing the federal workforce.

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    The only law is that which one holds in ones heart. It is not the law that binds us against fulfilling wicked deeds, but ourselves.

    So those that seek to become the law or say they champion it, do so as a way to protect their cowardly hearts: for they only see the law as a means to shield their transgressions from consequence and substitute their lawlessness for law.