‘Free enterprise is tougher to sell, but that’s what’s made our country great,’ the president said.
The order removes civil service protections for senior-level policy positions, making them more accountable for bad behavior, the administration said.
A U.S.-guided agreement requires a Hezbollah pullout from the south.
The auditor called for ‘less trusting, more verifying’ during a congressional task force hearing. Democrats questioned Republicans’ motives.

The accelerated program was designed to quickly increase ICE staffing levels amid expanded immigration enforcement efforts.
New listings also hit their highest May level since 2022, according to Realtor.com.
‘The outbreak had a big head start, and we’re still behind,’ the organization’s chief said.
Several districts in Florida and Georgia will have the technology in place for the 2026-2027 academic year.
Federal authorities have started the process of seizing Jamshid Ghomi’s assets, including his $35 million coastal mansion.

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft collected and relayed data on the Red Planet for more than a decade.
More than 300 companies moved to Texas in the past decade, taking advantage of its location and transit networks, not to mention no state income tax.
The vote kicks off an amendment process called a vote-a-rama.
Unpaid volunteers who have been addicted to kratom, an opioid-like substance, are providing data that could help federal regulators set policies.
The longtime correspondent was immediately terminated in an email.
Critics have called on Congress to make the government review process mandatory instead of voluntary.
The journalist worked for Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency, in the United States.
The USTR also said the U.S. government would continue to ‘engage intensively’ with Brazil to address its concerns.
Most of the arrested illegal truckers were from India, with a few from Russia, Mexico, and El Salvador.
Vasquez succeeds Mike Banks, who stepped down from the role in May after 15 months on the job.
The Utah judge also set a June 12 hearing on defense allegations that prosecutors’ public statements violated a gag order in the case of Tyler James Robinson.
Xocova is cleared to prevent COVID-19 in people who were exposed to the disease.
The accident destroyed the only launch pad built to launch the rocket assigned to fly NASA’s Moon Base I mission to the lunar south pole in a matter of months.