Trump will remove protections for career civil servants, says Miller

President-elect Donald J. Trump is considering a series of executive orders in his first days in office, including one aimed at removing job protections for career civil servants, his top policy adviser told Republican members of Congress on Sunday. according to two people briefed on the matter.

In a phone call with a few dozen Republicans on Sunday, Stephen Miller, Mr. Trump’s new homeland security adviser and White House deputy chief of staff overseeing policy, outlined what Mr. Trump plans on energy, immigration and federal policy. workers. The call was reported earlier by the website Punchbowl and confirmed by two people briefed on the conversation.

A Trump spokesperson did not respond to an email seeking comment.

Mr. Trump said he planned to sign about 100 executive orders in the first days of his presidency, a number of which would arrive within hours of his swearing in on Monday.

Among them are substantial steps to reshape the federal bureaucracy’s working rules, which are consistent with various promises Mr. Trump made on the campaign trail.

Mr. Miller described, while providing few details, executive orders aimed at reversing President Biden’s steps to institute “diversity, equity and inclusion” measures at federal agencies and reducing protections for transgender people receiving certain government services.

Mr. Trump is also considering reinstating an order he issued during his first term to create a new category of federal workers, known as Schedule F, who would not benefit from the same job protections that benefit career civil servants, who are supposed to be hired on merit and cannot be fired arbitrarily. That would allow his administration to move large numbers of federal workers to a new status over which it could maintain much tighter control, including the ability to hire and fire them more easily. The order is significant because Mr. Trump and Mr. Miller have deep hostility toward large swaths of the federal bureaucracy, which the president-elect often derisively calls “the deep state.”