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by Jeffrey A. Tucker
June 24, 2026
Quietly, and with no great fanfare, President Donald Trump has resurrected the most innovative strategy of his first term. In fact, I’ve argued that this one measure is the single most creative approach to government reform to advance in a century.
Trump’s executive order creates a new category for federal employment, set to apply to any civil servant who is working on policy and its implementation. It’s a resurrection of a similar executive order from late in his first term — promptly reversed by President Joe Biden — and the finalization of another announced in the earliest days of Trump’s second term.
What this means is rather dramatic. It brings the public sector, or at least part of it, to fit with the usual labor practices of the private sector. This helps r…
