“End of the Merit System”: Trump Signs Order Making 8,000 Senior Federal Workers At-Will Employees, Stripping 143 Years of Civil Service Protections
Published by TrenBuzz.com | June 3, 2026 | BREAKING Key Points at a Glance – Federal Workers At-Will Employees America’s merit-based civil service was created in 1883 to end a corrupt spoils system where government jobs went to political allies. On Wednesday, with a stroke of a pen, Donald Trump took the biggest single step … Read more