World Jun 03, 2026 · 1 min read

Trump signs order to make it easier to fire 8,000 highly paid federal workers

Order strips job protections from workers earning up to about $200,000 a year and deemed to be ‘influencing’ policyDonald Trump has signed an executive order making it easier to fire thousands of the best-paid workers in the US government aspart of a broader drive by his administration to overhaul t...

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by Michael Sainato and agencies
Trump signs order to make it easier to fire 8,000 highly paid federal workers

Order strips job protections from workers earning up to about $200,000 a year and deemed to be ‘influencing’ policy

Donald Trump has signed an executive order making it easier to fire thousands of the best-paid workers in the US government aspart of a broader drive by his administration to overhaul the federal workforce.

The order, released by the White House and the office of personnel management (OPM) on Wednesday, strips job protections from a mostly senior group of federal workers – about 8,000 employees – earning up to almost $200,000 a year, and who are deemed to be “influencing” government policy.

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