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• Trump fires one-third of federal employee appeals board - February 11, 2025

• By Eric Katz, Government Executive

  President Trump has removed a Democratic member of the quasi-judicial federal agency that hears appeals to firings and other disciplinary actions the government takes against its employees, clearing the way for the White House to install a Republican majority to the board as it seeks to push through efforts to upend the civil service.
  
  The White House notified the Merit Systems Protection Board on Monday evening that it had terminated Cathy Harris’ position on the agency’s central, three-member board. Ray Limon, another Democrat, had his position of vice chair stripped. On his first day in office, Trump named Henry Kerner, a Republican, as acting chair of the board.

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