The involuntary staff reductions include 1,107 civil service and 246 foreign service employees, according to a notice sent to ...

As part of the Trump administration’s efforts to shrink the federal government, at least 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign ...

Other federal agencies and appointees—including leaders of the United States military—were impediments to Trump’s most dangerous and unconstitutional impulses. From the November 2023 issue ...

In 1883, Congress created the United States Civil Service Commission to replace the Spoils System with merit hiring and use professional qualification tests to determine job readiness.

Carter's Civil Service Reform Act created the Office of Personnel Management and recognized the right of most federal workers to unionize. Then, in 1981, Ronald Reagan brought a seismic political ...

Trump also fired Hampton Dellinger, who until recently served as the special counsel of the United States, a role that investigates alleged violations of federal civil service protections and ...

Biden trashes Trump’s civil service plans in press conference The president described Project 2025 and Schedule F threats to the United States’ democratic system during a press conference ...

Prior to the 1880s, the federal civil service of the United States was entirely staffed by at-will employees who were supporters of the president and the political party that won the most recent ...

The federal civil service system is designed to ensure merit-based hiring and firing, and protects employees from arbitrary or unjust terminations, with federal employees overseeing essential funct… ...

In recent months, Donald Trump’s campaign and conservative action groups have developed a coordinated strategy to gut the federal civil service, effectively returning the United States ...

The Tea Party wave in 2010 also led to many civil service reforms in the states. Indiana, Arizona, Tennessee, and Kansas all abolished civil service protections for most new hires.