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IRS Furlough Back Pay Controversy & Trump Admin

IRS retracts advice on furlough back pay, aligning with Trump administration's stance. Democrats and Republicans reject the new legal argument. The 2019 Civil Servant Fair Therapy Act is at the center of the controversy.

15 Oct 2025

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Does Trump have the right idea about dismantling the Deep State?

Designed to accommodate clerks processing forms, and then amended in the 1960s to appease federal unions, the civil service system is a rusty industrial age machine disconnected from performance and repellant to highly qualified people.

11 Oct 2024