Trump takes step making it easier to fire thousands of career government employees

Published April 18, 2025 4:35pm ET



President Donald Trump announced a new rule Friday reclassifying thousands of career government employees as “at-will,” which would make it significantly easier to fire them.

The rule stems from a Day One executive order that directed the Office of Personnel Management to issue new “civil service regulations” for all career government employees.

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