What Trump is doing to the US government is not a spoils system
We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There ...
Doris Kearns Goodwin: We are witnessing an attempt to return to the old spoils system
The U.S. is witnessing in these last couple of weeks with the firings of civil servants is an attempt to return to the old ...
Civil Servants Are Not America’s Enemies
Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...
Trump’s Corrupt Plan to Fire Federal Workers, Hire Loyalists and Build His Own ‘Deep State’
Shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development, freezing foreign aid, placing the agency’s 10,000 employees ...
The Times of Israel4d
Making Connections between Andrew Jackson and Donald Trump
To Marcy, the phrase meant that the winning side in an election has the right to choose people to fill non-elected political ...
Las Vegas Sun3d
Staffing civil service with loyal subjects is what Saddam did
President Donald Trump and his administration’s attempts to remove America’s civil service corps as part of a broader effort to depopulate the federal government is genuinely horrifying ...
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Trump wants his loyal subjects in civil service jobs. That’s what Saddam Hussein did | Opinion
Taking a sledgehammer to the entire civil service is going to cause chaos. Projects will slow, institutional knowledge will be lost, safety standards will slip and corruption will become the norm.