President Donald Trump will end decades of Civil Service abuse and end the system. The Civil Service jobs within government number into the tens of thousands and they will be abolished and remade giving President Trump control over all federal employees.

President Donald Trump will end decades of Civil Service abuse and end the system.  The Civil Service jobs within government number into the tens of thousands and they will be abolished and remade giving President Trump control over all federal employees. 

In 2014 the Partnership for Public Service issued a report describing civil service as ‘a relic of a bygone era,’ and called for ‘a new civil service framework,’ including ending the presumption of lifetime careers. Like other good government reports, however, it treated accountability with kid gloves. But once the power of accountability is restored, designing a new civil service system requires no genius.

The basic elements are: 1) neutral hiring, without the endless red tape of the current system; 2) a safety net to treat public employees fairly if they are let go; and 3) a neutral body (perhaps the current Merit System Protection Board) with responsibility to guard against unfairness