Trump strips civil-service protections from thousands of feds

Some 8,000 career federal workers will be stripped of civil-service protections under a Wednesday executive order to convert their jobs into at-will employment.President Trump's edict marks the culmination of a years-long push to make it easier to fire federal employees in “policy-related” jobs by removing them from the federal government’s competitive service and placing them in a new job category, initially called Schedule F and now referred to as Schedule Poli