The Trump administration on Friday advanced its latest effort to make it easier to fire some federal employees.
The Office of Personnel Management proposed a rule late last week that aims to reclassify tens of thousands of policy-influencing government workers and make it easier to remove them from their positions.
President Donald Trump hailed the effort as a way to “root out corruption and implement accountability in our Federal Workforce,” in a post on social media last week. The president’s critics, however, view the move as an attempt by the administration to politicize the civil service.
The proposal follows an executive order Trump issued on his first day in office that he said would aim to “restore accountability to the career civil service.”
