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Term limits for congressional staff? 10 reasons it’s an awful idea

By Casey Burgat

Published May 1, 2018 2:34am ET

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Term limits for congressional staff? 10 reasons it’s an awful idea — This photo taken July 23, 2013, show the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Congress returns to work this week with a relatively short and simple agenda, vote to keep the government operating in the short term, then return home to campaign. National security threats from Islamic State militants and Russian aggression in Ukraine loom large, but September's session may be too short for lawmakers to do anything but talk about them. | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

On Monday afternoon, Washington Post reporter Robert Costa tweeted that in a meeting with President Trump, a bipartisan group of freshman lawmakers kicked around the idea of implementing term limits … on congressional staff.

Though Trump has been vocal in his support of term limits on members of Congress as part of his pitch to “Drain the Swamp,” the potential reform has never been extended to the thousands of congressional aides serving in district offices and on Capitol Hill.

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