The trouble with being the sort of person who gives credit where due is the sort of people you sometimes have to give credit ...

The act of violence almost 150 years ago effectively gave birth to the civil service, that class of nonpartisan experts who ...

The new executive order forbids agencies from hiring more than one new worker for every four who leave government service ...

"The Executive Order provides no details, data ... The passage of the Pendleton Act of 1883 required holders of many federal jobs to obtain their employment through a competitive civil service ...

The civilian federal workforce, not including military personnel and postal workers, comprises about 2.4 million people.

The president-elect has vowed to revive “Schedule F,” an executive order that will enable him ... The Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 created a nonpartisan service of experts whose purpose ...

The famous poem from 1883 on the base of the Statue of Liberty promises a new life for the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free”. But a few days ago all that changed as new President Donald Trump ...

Following the success of "1883" and "1923," this prequel promises ... Explaining Trump’s executive order.

The tech oligarch has unleashed his slow-rolling coup d’état across the federal government, and it’s not clear anything can ...

Legal protections for federal employees add another layer of argument against following the order. While the president heads the executive branch ... Reform Act of 1883 created a professional ...

Trump then returned to the White House Oval Office, where he signed additional executive orders to ... the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883. That was two years after a disgruntled ...

"The Trump Administration's so-called buyout offer is a pointed attack aimed at dismantling our federal workforce and sowing chaos for Americans that rely on a functioning government," Bonta said in a ...