Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. James Broughel is an economist focused on the economics of regulation. In October of 2020, former President Trump signed an ...

Barker is a program officer at the Charles F. Kettering Foundation and the lead editor of the foundation's blog series "From Many, We." This is part of a series offering a nonpartisan counter to ...

A pair of former Trump administration officials on Thursday made the case in favor of Schedule F, a 2020 plan to strip tens of thousands of federal workers of most civil service protections, calling ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week endorsed the revival of a Trump-era initiative aimed at stripping tens of thousands of federal employees of their civil service protections. The Republican governor ...

President Donald Trump and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) are moving forward with “Schedule F,” a policy to make it easier to remove workers from federal agencies like the Department of ...

Trump’s “Schedule F” plan to eliminate workplace protections for the civil service was averted in 2020. But the GOP still dreams of the purge. To that end, Trump issued an executive order in October ...

In the last months of his presidency, former President Trump signed an executive order that could have meant the biggest change to the federal government workforce in over a century. It created a new ...

Much of the federal workforce is on edge and bracing itself for the likelihood its ranks will be purged when President-elect Donald Trump takes office. Trump, who has derided civil servants as agents ...

What is Schedule F, and can Trump use it to declare war on the Federal bureaucracy, maybe parts of the deep state itself? In October 2020, during the first administration, Trump issued an executive ...

Taming the unfettered growth of the federal administrative state has been a long-term goal of conservatives. But, despite strong rhetorical commitment to “drain the swamp,” the Trump administration ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. President Donald Trump announced on Friday his administration will be ...