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Trump issues sweeping order stripping job protections from tens of thousands of federal employees

President Donald Trump has fired his biggest broadside yet this week against a federal bureaucracy he has moved to remake with an executive order that would remove job security from an estimated tens of thousands of civil servants.

The directive, issued late Wednesday, strips long-held civil service protections from employees whose work involves policymaking, allowing them to be dismissed with little cause or recourse, much like the political appointees who come and go with each administration.

"President Trump is delivering on his promise to make Washington accountable again to the citizens it's meant to serve," Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, said in a statement. "This much-needed reform will increase accountability in essential policy-making positions within the government."

https://www.stripes.com/trump-issues-sweeping-order-stripping-job-protections-from-tens-of-thousands-of-federal-employees-1.649559