The changes come after the Senate parliamentarian said several proposals from the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee violated the Byrd Rule.

Now in their late 70s and early 80s, the three retirees are part of a generation of Black Americans who used the military and federal civil service to pursue the American dream.

The federal government is the largest employer in the U.S., with just over 3 million civilian civil service workers. These workers are responsible for everything from delivering your mail to ...

Carter's Civil Service Reform Act created the Office of Personnel Management and recognized the right of most federal workers to unionize. Then, in 1981, Ronald Reagan brought a seismic political ...

Other federal agencies and appointees—including leaders of the United States military—were impediments to Trump’s most dangerous and unconstitutional impulses. From the November 2023 issue ...

The first labor union to represent federal civil service employees in the United States is celebrating its 90-year anniversary. The National Federation of Federal Employees was founded in ...

And they used to celebrate their jobs, taking pride in declaring that they work for the United States. But the new people in charge of the U.S. government have declared war on its 2.3 million ...

Biden trashes Trump’s civil service plans in press conference The president described Project 2025 and Schedule F threats to the United States’ democratic system during a press conference ...

In recent months, Donald Trump’s campaign and conservative action groups have developed a coordinated strategy to gut the federal civil service, effectively returning the United States ...

In 1883, Congress created the United States Civil Service Commission to replace the Spoils System with merit hiring and use professional qualification tests to determine job readiness.

Prior to the 1880s, the federal civil service of the United States was entirely staffed by at-will employees who were supporters of the president and the political party that won the most recent ...

Still, the stated goal, however ghastly its application, was defensible: Federal employees were expected to be loyal to the United States and not to its Cold War adversary, the Soviet Union.