Earlier this year, ministers announced plans for a new grassroots approach to policymaking for the opportunity mission – ...

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, ...

On May 29, 2025, the White House and Office of Personnel Management jointly released a 30-page Merit Hiring Plan that mandates new requirements and procedures for executive branch hiring. As a former ...

As I noted in my first installment, there’s a lot going on in the federal civil service world these days—that includes most of “what” the Trump Administration is trying to accomplish in that regard, ...

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 ...

In the waning days of the first Trump administration, the White House announced a plan to convert an estimated 50,000 government employees to a status similar to political appointees—meaning that they ...

So, as part of the Global Government Summit 2025, leaders discussed how to create an enabling environment for AI innovation; ...

As president, he is threatening to cut 50,000 federal positions. There will be federal employees whom he replaces as part of the usual political turnover, and others whom he will fire as retribution ...

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 ...

David Rose receives funding from the ESRC. Mark Burgman receives funding from UKRI, the Australian Research Council and DARPA. William Sutherland receives funding from Arcadia, David and Claudia ...

The president feels threatened by career nonpartisan federal employees who just want to do their job. A person walks in front of the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban ...