Career civil servants have the same job protections as private sector employees who can be fired at will.

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This is false. The 1883 Pendleton Act created merit-based hiring and removal to stop presidents from firing workers after elections. Civil servants get: 60 days' RIF notice, retention competition by seniority/performance, bump rights to lower positions, and appeals to Merit Systems Protection Board. At-will private workers have none of this. Trump's shutdown RIFs tried to erase these protections by calling layoffs "emergencies."

Career civil servants have the same job protections as private sector employees who can be fired at will.

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