We cannot reject DEI in the name of meritocracy while replacing it with a spoil system for a select few,” House Speaker ...

On Wednesday, a major source of state funding for education and other aspects of government emerged as the target for ...

Historian and Yale professor Joanne Freeman says the Trump Administration’s gutting of the civil service and the ascension of his top campaign donors to cabinet positions parallel the spoils system.

The Pendleton Act of 1883 removed political influence from many federal jobs. Its influence shaped the civil service ...

The League of Women Voters believes efficient and economical government requires competent personnel, the clear assignment of responsibilities, adequate financing, and coordination among the different ...

That, to me, is what should be the overall narrative for people. We had a system 140 years plus ago called the spoils system. It was the system of to the victor goes the spoils. Whoever was ...

This essentially returns the historical “spoils system” which generations of reformers had replaced with merit as the criterion for hiring instead of political loyalty. DOGE reported cost ...

Ah yes, those were the good old days when an American president could do what he wanted with the federal workforce. That was George Washington in the 1790s, who followed what the English colony ...

The “spoils system” of the 19th century filled the government with party loyalists and increased corruption across the country, until a popular political movement created appetite for reform.