The order mainly applies to senior-level federal staff, mostly at GS-15 and above, the highest level in the federal pay system.

Defense, State, DHS positions among those converted to at-will jobs.

President Trump signed an executive order that puts some 8,000 high-ranking civil servants into a new category of employees who can be fired for any reason.

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…

President Trump has stripped job protections from thousands of federal workers.

A federal employee union condemned the move, arguing it strips career workers of longstanding protections against political retaliation.