Trump’s Plan to Control More Civil Servants Disrupts Opposition

President Donald Trump plans to play a starring role in removing job protections for career federal workers, a move that will make it harder for employee unions to stop him.

The Trump administration took the first step toward putting more career federal employees under the president’s control recently when it proposed eliminating job protections for roughly 50,000 positions. Unlike his attempt to overhaul the civil service during his previous term, Trump would decide which roles would be included in the new category of workers, known as Schedule Policy/Career, and not a government office.

That hinders the unions’ strategy to eliminate the ...