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

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

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

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.