“All of the checks and balances have been stripped,” said Kyla Bennett, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a group that offers pro bono assistance to whistleblowers within federal agencies. Federal employees, she added, “can’t ...

Trump’s order, nearly identical to his previous Schedule F executive order in 2020, would lay the groundwork to convert a huge percentage of the federal civil service from employees who can only be fired for cause to at-will employees who can be fired for any reason at all ...

President Trump’s move to eliminate civil service protections for a wide number of federal employees was challenged in federal court Tuesday by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which maintained the effort exceeds the president’s authority. Under the president ...

A study released last week from a national government watchdog group, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, suggested that design flaws in the RPS “are undermining the state’s transition to clean electricity and imposing significant costs on Maryland ratepayers.” ...

Critics of the Trump administration’s efforts, though, said the executive order is an attempt to politicize the career federal workforce. Many have said it will ultimately harm the non-partisan nature of agencies and threaten national security. “These moves are designed to weaken the ...