President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are working to dramatically reduce the size of the federal civil service. They have already laid off numerous government employees who work on issues ranging from ...

Earlier this year President Trump dealt another blow to the civil service with an executive order establishing a new “Schedule G” classification expanding the number of political appointments in ...

Could the Supreme Court really give Donald Trump blanket or near blanket immunity? Here, the former president, right, sits in the courtroom before the start of his civil business fraud trial, ...

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 ...

It’s impossible to game out exactly what a second Trump administration will mean for our country. There are too many variables and unknowns. There is, however, one underappreciated area where Trump ...

Presidents Rarely Defy Courts. Some MAGA supporters have pointed to presidents who they say defied court orders. But that's not really the case. Here, President Donald Trump speaks before Pam Bondi is ...

For a second year in a row, a contested effort to change the constitution to give state lawmakers more power over Louisiana’s civil service system is underway. Sen. Jay Morris, R-West Monroe, is again ...

A cadre of Republican former national security officials on Thursday urged lawmakers to abandon the GOP’s growing embrace of Schedule F, arguing there are better ways to hold poor performing or ...

A new broom sweeps clean, goes the old saying, but President Trump needs to approach the federal bureaucracy with more than just a broom. Maybe something like a bulldozer. With an imminent budget ...

“WE WORK for the nation, not for the cabinet minister,” crows Kazagoshi Shingo, the hero of “The Summer of Bureaucrats”, a Japanese novel. Kazagoshi, an official at the ministry of trade and industry, ...