It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
Political appointments inherently take into consideration loyalty to the president or the party. But expanding those types of questions to the career civil service is a significant departure.
An emergency ruling by a federal judge in California amounted to the broadest effort yet to halt the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal government.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is offering “career support” sessions. Some federal workers said they were insulted by the idea of the workshops.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit sided with the government to block a lower-court ruling that had led to the reinstatement of thousands of federal workers.
Fired employees expressed excitement about the prospect of reinstatement, as well as back pay. But there’s no template for rehiring en masse.
A federal judge on Thursday called the administration’s justification for firing thousands of workers with probationary status a “sham.”
The official, McLaurine Pinover, the top spokeswoman for the Office of Personnel Management, said she never made any money from the fashion videos filmed in her office.
The government said in a court filing that Charles Ezell, who issued the memos that agencies interpreted as orders to fire thousands of employees, would not appear in court Thursday.
Some newer employees have been summoned to an off-site location and asked to surrender their credentials.
The loss of early career workers has raised concerns about the impact on the next generation of civil servants.