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How the civil service system changed American government
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:47:20
Publish Date: 2025-01-14 19:00:01
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The Pendleton Act of 1883 established a non-partisan civil service. President-elect Donald Trump says he’ll upend the law, firing non-partisan employees and replacing them with loyalists. We'll look at how the U.S. came to have a civil service in the first place.
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