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Nearly half of all civilian feds are new hires since 2019

Agencies hired more than 1 million federal employees since October 2019, and it’s almost an even split between competitive and excepted service.

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New House bill would block future administrations from using Schedule F, or anything else like it

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Union, lawmakers attempt to block Schedule F executive order through new lawsuit, legislation

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New executive order could strip civil service protections from ‘wide swaths’ of federal workforce

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Senate passes budgets for DoD, HHS, Education, and Labor

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