He is intent on doing as much harm as possible from here on.

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5. this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-order-federal-civil-service/2020/10/22/c73783f0-1481-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html

Career federal employees whose work involves making policy would no longer be hired under competitive procedures and would lose some civil service protections from being fired as well as eligibility to be represented by a union, under an executive order that President Trump issued Wednesday.

The order would shift those employees from what is called the “competitive service” — covering the bulk of the 2.1 million executive branch employees — into the “excepted service,” which in general applies to political appointees below the level requiring Senate confirmation.

“This is the most profound undermining of the civil service in our lifetimes,” American Federation of Government Employees President Everett Kelley said in a statement. “The president has doubled down on his effort to politicize and corrupt the professional service.

“This executive order strips due process rights and protections from perhaps hundreds of thousands of federal employees and will enable political appointees and other officials to hire and fire these workers at will,” he said.

Trump said his order will “give agencies greater ability and discretion to assess critical qualities in applicants to fill these positions, such as work ethic, judgment, and ability to meet the particular needs of the agency.”