Trump’s moves to strip employment protections from federal workers threaten to make government function worse – not better

Image: Constitution of the United States. Image credit:  Constitutional Convention – NARA via Wikimedia. Public Domain. Article by James L. Perry. The Conversation – February 21, 2025.

On top of efforts to fire potentially tens of thousands of federal workers, an early executive order from President Donald Trump’s second term seeks to reclassify the employment status of as many as 50,000 other federal workers – out of more than 2 million total – to make them easier for the president to fire as well. The order has already been […]

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