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Trump’s moves to strip employment protections from federal workers threaten to make government function worse – not better

  • Written by James L. Perry, Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs Emeritus, Indiana University
imageFederal workers' jobs may become more precarious than in the past.mathisworks/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

On top of efforts to fire potentially tens of thousands of federal workers, an early executive order from President Donald Trump’s second term seeks to reclassify the employment status of as many as 50,000 other federal workers...

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