Government Hires Shouldn’t Have to Take a MAGA Essay Test

The Trump Administration has adopted new hiring procedures that will impose ideological litmus tests in federal hiring. Job applicants will be graded on essays about their allegiance to “America’s founding principles” and their commitment to implementing Trump’s executive orders. These new essay questions have little to do with the jobs of most government and employees and more to do with ideological conformity.  They violate both the Civil Service statute and the First Amendment.