President Donald Trump announced a new rule Friday reclassifying thousands of career government employees as “at-will,” which would make it significantly easier to fire them.
The rule stems from a Day One executive order that directed the Office of Personnel Management to issue new “civil service regulations” for all career government employees.
Trump took similar action during his first term in office, signing an executive order reclassifying some government employees as “Schedule F” and stripping them of some civil protections in the process. Former President Joe Biden would go on to rescind Trump’s Schedule F order in 2021.
“This is common sense, and will allow the federal government to finally be ‘run like a business,’” the president added. “We must root out corruption and implement accountability
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