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Government Worker Protections
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Merit-system protections insulate the federal workforce from political patronage. Reclassification of career positions (e.g., Schedule F) or mass reductions in force can hollow out institutional expertise and create loyalty-based staffing, undermining bureaucratic independence that constrains executive overreach.
Merit rules are what stop every administration — this one and the next — from staffing the government with loyalists. Why this matters →
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