Trump Moves to Ease the Firing of Federal WorkersNY Times, May 25, 2018, Noam Scheiber
President Trump on Friday signed a series of executive orders making it easier to fire federal government workers and rolling back the prerogatives of unions that represent them. Andrew Bremberg, the head of the White House Domestic Policy Council, said the president was “fulfilling his promise to promote more efficient government by reforming our Civil Service rules.â€
But the push also reflects conservatives’ long-running suspicion of the federal bureaucracy, one that the president’s advisers have been outspoken in channeling. Shortly after Mr. Trump took office, Stephen K. Bannon, then his chief strategist, called for “the deconstruction of the administrative state.â€
Unions representing government workers were quick to denounce the actions, calling them an “assault on democracy,†in the words of the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, which represents 700,000 workers.
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