Trump vows to fire bureaucrats. Here’s why Biden is trying to stop him – By Caitlin Babcock and Sophie Hills (CS Monitor) / May 7, 2024
For decades, American presidents routinely offered government jobs to political allies – and expected those employees would do their bidding in return.
Then in 1881, a campaign supporter who did not win such a favor assassinated President James Garfield. That proved to be a tipping point, spurring the creation of a civil service mostly staffed by nonpartisan workers selected on merit, not on political allegiance.
Nearly a century and a half later, the two presidential front-runners are debating whether to keep it that way.
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