The President signed an executive order that strips job protections for thousands of career civil servants and effectively turns them into at-will employees.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed ⁠an executive order on Wednesday making it easier to fire ​8,000 of some of the best-paid government workers, part of a broader effort to ‌overhaul the federal workforce.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that wipes away civil service protections from roughly 8,000 high-level federal workers by making them at-will employees.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday making it easier to remove thousands of senior federal employees, prompting backlash from federal worker unions that accused the administration of attempting to politicize the civil service.

Roughly 8,000 career federal employees were stripped of their civil service protections Wednesday, making them effectively at-will employees.

Close to 8,000 federal workers will find their positions reclassified in a way that makes it easier to get fired.