Trump Signs Executive Order Removing Job Protections From Federal Workers

The order is a response to resistance during the first Trump administration, when senior career government officials routinely pushed back against policies that appeared to exceed legal boundaries. Order strips job protections from workers earning up to about $200,000 a year and deemed to be ‘influencing’ policyDonald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday making it easier to fire 8,000 of some of the best-paid government workers, part of a broader effort to overhaul the federal workforce.The order, released by the White House and the office of personnel management (OPM), strips job protections from a mostly senior group of federal workers earning up to almost $200,000 a year and who...