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Civil Service

Career federal employees protected by merit-based hiring and firing rules.

  1. 2026

    5 items
    Pendleton Act (1883)
    Celebrating 143 years of the merit-based civil service
    MSPB Jurisdiction
    May 15

    HHS strips civil service protections from hundreds of senior employees

    Hundreds of HHS senior staff lose firing protections as Schedule Policy/Career hits first agency

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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    Everett Kelley
    Donald Trump
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  2. 2025

    5 items
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    University of Queensland: Libertarian tech titan Peter Thiel helped make JD Vance
    Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas
    Trump's reign fits Curtis Yarvin's blueprint of a CEO-led American monarchy
    Jan 15

    Yarvin-Thiel network's anti-democratic philosophy gains influence in Trump administration

    Anti-democracy blogger attends Trump inaugural as his ideas echo through DOGE workforce cuts

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  3. 2024

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  4. 2021

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  5. 2020

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  6. 1989

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  7. 1978

    2 items

  8. 1939

    1 item

  9. 1883

    2 items
People

Key figures in Civil Service

23 figures
Donald Trump
President of the United States
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Elon Musk
Billionaire Influencer
Charles Ezell
Acting Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management
Everett Kelley
National President, American Federation of Government Employees
Joe Biden
46th President of the United States (2021-2025)
Russell Vought
White House Budget Director
Carl Levin
Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug)
Neoreactionary philosopher whose ideas influence administration allies
Dan Goldbeck
Senior Analyst, Federation of American Scientists
George W. Bush
President
J.D. Vance
Vice President of the United States
Kiran Ahuja
Former Director, Office of Personnel Management
Liz Shuler
AFL-CIO President
Marc Andreessen
Tech investor who called Yarvin a good friend
Max Stier
President and CEO, Partnership for Public Service
Michael Anton
State Department Director of Policy Planning who discussed Yarvin ideas
Patty Murray
U.S. Senator - Washington
Paula Xinis
U.S. District Judge, District of Maryland
Peter Thiel
Billionaire investor who funded both Yarvin and Vance campaigns
Scott Kupor
Director, Office of Personnel Management
Tom Devine
Legal Director, Government Accountability Project
Vice President JD Vance
Has cited Yarvin as influence, funded by Thiel