It’s about to get easier for Trump to fire federal workers

Photo: President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast, Thursday, February 5, 2026, at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. Photo credit: Official White House photo by Molly Riley via Flickr. US government work. Article by Andrea Hsu. NPR – February 6, 2026.

In October 2020, President Trump unveiled a plan to grant himself the power to fire vast numbers of civil servants for any reason should they get in the way of his agenda. Five and a half years later, that plan has come to fruition, despite vast public opposition. Starting March 9, an unspecified number of federal employees could lose their current job protections and be converted into at-will employees at Trump’s discretion. That’s according to a final rule issued Friday by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the agency that handles many human resources functions for the federal government. […]

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