Trump signs order to make it easier to fire 8,000 highly paid federal workers

Order strips job protections from workers earning up to about $200,000 a year and deemed to be ‘influencing’ policy Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday making it easier to fire 8,000 of some of the best-paid government workers, part of a broader effort to overhaul the federal workforce. The order, released by the White House and the office of personnel management (OPM), strips job protections from a mostly senior group of federal workers earning up to almost $200,000 a year and who are deemed to be “influencing” government policy. Continue reading...

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