Governance Experts Assail White House Effort to Strip Federal Employees of Rights - Government Executive

..."This executive order is nothing more than propaganda intended to further the message that career federal workers are corrupt and not dedicated to serving all Americans equally," he said. "The administration's endorsement of this philosophy plays directly into the hands of our adversaries who seek to foment civil unrest and undermine the foundation of our democracy . . . With this order, there is no longer an independent civil service. This is how the party-run governments of authoritarian-led countries are organized and staffed."...

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