'Neutral competence,' partisanship and efforts to overhaul the civil service
COMMENTARY | One scholar argues that a radical movement to shift powers to the president would be disastrous for the federal workforce.
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COMMENTARY | One scholar argues that a radical movement to shift powers to the president would be disastrous for the federal workforce.
Revisiting the lesser-known wisdom of the founders.
If Donald Trump wins a second term, he and his allies want to revive a plan to allow a president to fire civil service workers who are supposed to be hired on merit. The Biden administration is trying to thwart it.
An effort to insulate the federal workforce from future efforts to strip them of their removal protections could accelerate an “existential” debate over...
When President Biden took office, he swiftly canceled an executive order his predecessor Donald Trump had issued that could have enabled Trump to fire tens of thousands of federal workers and replace them with loyalists. But Democrats never succeeded in enacting legislation to strengthen protections for the civil service system as a matter of law.