{"id":65508,"date":"2026-02-05T13:57:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/trump-administration-issues-rule-that-makes-it-easier-to-fire-federal-workers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T13:57:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:57:05","slug":"trump-administration-issues-rule-that-makes-it-easier-to-fire-federal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/trump-administration-issues-rule-that-makes-it-easier-to-fire-federal-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration issues rule that makes it easier to fire federal workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New rule to be published in the Federal Register on Friday would strip job protections for 50,000 federal employees<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> is seeking to finalize its overhaul of the federal government\u2019s civil service system through a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/public-inspection\/2026-02375\/improving-performance-accountability-and-responsiveness-in-the-civil-service\"> rule issued <\/a>this week by the office of personnel management (OPM) to strip job protections from 50,000 civil service employees.<\/p>\n<p>Under the rule, the president would have the authority to fire and hire an estimated 50,000 career federal employees.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/05\/trump-administration-federal-workers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New rule to be published in the Federal Register on Friday would strip job protections for 50,000 federal employees The Trump administration is seeking to finalize its overhaul of the federal government\u2019s civil service system through a rule issued this week by the office of personnel management (OPM) to strip job protections from 50,000 civil &#8230; <a title=\"Trump administration issues rule that makes it easier to fire federal workers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/trump-administration-issues-rule-that-makes-it-easier-to-fire-federal-workers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump administration issues rule that makes it easier to fire federal workers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}