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

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

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

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.

Order strips job protections from workers earning up to about $200,000 a year and deemed to be ‘influencing’ policy

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

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.

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will make it easier to dismiss thousands of senior federal employees.

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…

Trump signs order expanding authority to remove senior policy-influencing federal employees as workforce reforms continue.

About 97% of reclassified positions are among the highest-ranking career positions such as directors, chiefs of staff and senior advisers.

...the policy remains the subject of multiple lawsuits filed by federal employee unions.

The head of America's largest federal workers union called it "a blatant attempt to corrupt the federal government by eliminating employees’ due process rights so they can be…

President Trump signed an executive order making over 8,000 federal employees removable at will.