6 GOP Senators Want to Make Firing Bad Bureaucrats Easier

6 GOP Senators Want to Make Firing Bad Bureaucrats Easier
U.S. Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) in Las Vegas, Nev., on April 6, 2019. Ethan Miller/Getty Images
Mark Tapscott
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WASHINGTON—Firing underperforming career civil servants should take no more than a year, according to six Republican senators who introduced legislation to make that time limit a reality.

“Government employees should be held to the same standards as private sector employees, yet it is nearly impossible to fire bureaucrats for failing to do their jobs,” said Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) in a June 19 statement.
Mark Tapscott
Mark Tapscott
Senior Congressional Correspondent
Mark Tapscott is an award-winning senior Congressional correspondent for The Epoch Times. He covers Congress, national politics, and policy. Mr. Tapscott previously worked for Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Montgomery Journal, and Daily Caller News Foundation.
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