How is a political appointee different from a career federal employee?
President Donald Trump is on a mission to slash the federal government's size. Here's all you need to know about political appointees and career government employees.
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Trump wants to gut civil service protections. Here's why they exist
About 90% of the federal bureaucracy — or 2.2 million workers — are classified as civil servants. President Trump is trying to change how the civil service functions by gutting federal agencies and ...
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The Civil Service's Partisanship Problem
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Firing civil servants and dismantling government departments is how aspiring strongmen consolidate personal power – lessons from around the globe
Whether by shuffling agency personnel, creating new agencies, or limiting their capacity for oversight, a common tactic among ...
Where Trump, Musk and DOGE Have Cut Federal Workers So Far
President Trump and Elon Musk have spent several weeks slashing federal jobs — often in defiance of legal limits — and there ...
The federal civil service now under attack was a path to the middle class for these Black retirees
They say one thing being lost in the attacks on the federal workforce is its important history as a stepping stone into the ...