Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) added his name Tuesday to a growing list of President Donald Trump allies calling for the executive ...

We know this because Trump has always said that he believes "to the victor belongs the spoils" and by that, he apparently ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and Trump's nominee to be director of ...

Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...

Rachel Maddow mocked Donald Trump for thinking he has a “big Trump mandate” for latest threat Trump called for a U.S.-led ...

We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There ...

To Marcy, the phrase meant that the winning side in an election has the right to choose people to fill non-elected political ...

The U.S. is witnessing in these last couple of weeks with the firings of civil servants is an attempt to return to the old ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

He says that under that “spoils system,” the main job requirement for most federal employees was … loyalty. It was a system inaugurated by Democratic President Andrew Jackson. “When he came in, he was ...

He says that under that "spoils system," the main job requirement for most federal employees was … loyalty. It was a system inaugurated by Democratic President Andrew Jackson. "When he came in ...