Trump strips job protections from 8,000 federal workers ^44.7%

NPR - By Andrea Hsu - 6/3/2026, 7:53 PM

Hasty Generalization 21.6% - Framing Effect 19.4% - Confirmation Bias 19.3%

President Trump has issued an executive order turning an estimated 8,000 federal workers into at-will employees, which means the government could fire them without providing any reason. The move culminates an effort Trump launched during his first term to strip vast numbers of federal employees of civil service protections designed to... more