The Trump administration is working with each federal agency to grow the number of jobs it can strip worker protections from, according to three people with knowledge of the process.
The effort is part of the White House’s push to tighten the president’s control over career civil servants. In an executive order last month, President Donald Trump stripped roughly 8,000 employees of protections they have historically had before facing discipline.
The Office of Personnel Management is expected to submit expanded lists of jobs that can be reclassified to at-will employment to the White House by the end of September, according to one of the sources familiar with the plan.