Trump Targets Senior Civil Servants

Trump’s new executive order guts protections for 8,000 federal policy leaders, paving the way to replace career staff with loyalists — a move critics fear resurrects the corrupt “spoils system” of the past. While officials claim the goal is simply ensuring compliance with presidential priorities, new hiring questions probing political alignment raise alarms. Legal challenges loom, and lawmakers now warn they must act to preserve a merit-based civil service before it’s too late. Support the show:Get a discount at https://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/33be7c5da75ec659