Thought folks could do with a little history about how (and why) the US federal bureaucracy was originally de-politicized, in the words of one (not yet president) Teddy Roosevelt.
... the United States Civil Service Commission was later replaced by the Office of Personnel Management and the Merit Systems Protection Board in 1978.
Thought folks could do with a little history about how (and why) the US federal bureaucracy was originally de-politicized, in the words of one (not yet president) Teddy Roosevelt.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt#Civil_Ser...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Civil_Service_...
... the United States Civil Service Commission was later replaced by the Office of Personnel Management and the Merit Systems Protection Board in 1978.