Trump’s Targeting of ‘Deep State’ Employees Set for Comeback

Federal workers are set to become targets of President-elect Donald Trump, who has promised to re-up policies aimed at rooting out employees he’s derided as part of a “deep state” intent on undermining his agenda.

Trump in 2020 issued an executive order making it easier to fire career government employees by placing them under Schedule F, a new employment category which lacks the civil service protections they would otherwise have.

President Joe Biden scrapped the order after taking office, and the White House Office of Personnel Management has since sought to establish further protections.

But Trump has pledged to ...